Global Rights for Women
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471861069
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Plymouth, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6125816450
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $258,517
- Expenses
- $342,375
- Assets
- $80,505
- Liabilities
- $10,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CHERYL THOMAS (EXECUTIVE DI): $50,628 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Global rights for women is dedicated to promoting women's human rights internationally with a focus on achieving effective legal reform on violence against women.
What it reported doing in 2025
Global rights for women philippines - in 2025, grw worked with local partners in metro manila to build capacity to achieve systemic improvements in the legal system. This work was focused on new reforms to law and policy on sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and sex trafficking. Grw traveled to the philippines twice in 2025 to meet in person with local advocates and continue this work. Tanzania - grw continued its work with tanzanian network of legal aid providers (tanlap) a local NGO in dar es salaam to achieve systemic reforms on violence against women. Grw consulted with tanlap on strategies to draft and pass a dedicated law prohibiting all forms of violence against women and to improve legal representation for survivors of violence. In february 2025, grw traveled to tanzania in furtherance of this work. Armenia - in 2025, in collaboration with the womens support center (wsc) in yerevan, grw drafted the report, advancing the domestic violence agenda in armenia, based on our in-person visits, interviews and document review. The report will be published in 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 66% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $226K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.