Global Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520846183
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015874700
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,100,528
- Expenses
- $123,837,690
- Assets
- $261,783,148
- Liabilities
- $127,090,807
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLYN HESSLER-RADELET (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROLYN HESSLER-RADELET (PRESIDENT & CEO): $499,852 total reported compensation
- BRIAN K KEMPLE (CHIEF OF PARTY (END 04/25)): $393,630 total reported compensation
- ERIC M O'NEILL (FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE): $376,932 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Global communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.
What it reported doing in 2024
Technical assistance: global communities provides assistance to individuals and international governmental and private organizations that in turn assist their citizens or members in improving their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 79% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $101.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $97.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $500K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 39 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.