GoodWeave International

What it reported doing in 2025

Promote Best Practices: Advocacy, Research, and System's Change Partnerships: GoodWeave promotes best practices and builds capacity in other organizations based on its model. We also implement innovative projects, conduct research, and advance advocacy and thought leadership to expand impact across sectors. In February 2025, GoodWeave's published report, "Forced Labour and Child Labour in Bangladesh's Garment Sector: Documenting Risks and Informing Solutions", drew on on surveys and focus group discussions with more than 2,000 adult and minor workers across 20 industrial clusters in Dhaka and Chattogram, Bangladesh's key ready-made garment production hubs. GoodWeave provided concrete recommendations for the Government of Bangladesh, international buyers, local garment suppliers, non-governmental organizations, and trade unions to improve supply chain transparency, conduct risk-based human rights due diligence, ensure adequate compensation, mitigate child and forced labor, and establish effective grievance mechanisms in Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector.In October 2025, GoodWeave also releases its report, "From Risk to Resilience: How Climate Change is Deepening Child and Forced Labor in Nepal, and what to do about it," to document how climate change is intensifying risks for vulnerable groups and examines how workers and communities are coping with these pressures.The recommendations for public and private sector leaders, includes: designing and implementing targeted protec tions for climate-vulnerable children and adult workers in high-risk sectors by strengthening education, safeguarding, and climate awareness; strengthening agricultural resilience and land access while enhancing income-generating op portunities and livelihood diversification; enhancing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; and ex panding existing labor and social protection frameworks in Nepali law to ensure adequate safety of children.In 2025, GoodWeave continued to participate in numerous high-level events and advocacy platforms to promote the importance of ending child labor and modern slavery through deep due diligence practices that include full supply chain mapping, application of strong human rights standards, ensuring remedy to rights holders, and addressing root causes. These included speaking roles at the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in Apparel and Footwear, a stakeholder convening in Bangladesh, and an advocacy initiative to disseminate recommendations from the climate research in Nepal.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 74.6%; rating input score 75
• Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 9.2%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings