International Alliance for Responsible Drinking Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521912065
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2024096769
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,102,327
Expenses
$7,979,932
Assets
$5,472,761
Liabilities
$2,234,478

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JULIAN BRAITHWAITE (CEO)
  • DOMINIC RUSTECKI (DEPUTY CEO)
  • VIRGINIA GIDI SVP MULTILATERAL (POLICY ANALYSIS/INTERIM CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JULIAN BRAITHWAITE (CEO): $919,326 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER TUJAGUE CHIEF (SCIENTIST AND SVP SCIENCE & RESEARCH): $308,948 total reported compensation
  • DOMINIC RUSTECKI (DEPUTY CEO): $240,804 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To reduce harmful drinking and promote responsible drinking. Also to encourage dialogue and partnership involving the alcohol beverage industry, the public health community and others interested in alcohol policy.

What it reported doing in 2025

Raising standards of responsibility: iard works to set global standards that focus on three key areas - promoting informed adult choice and moderation, preventing underage drinking, and tackling harmful drinking. Iard global standards include commitments to integrate responsible drinking messages into labelling, advertising and digital channels; including age-restriction reminders on product labels, and on 0.0 versions of alcohol brands. They also include warnings against drinking during pregnancy and driving while intoxicated, along with energy and alcohol content information. We support strict enforcement of legal purchase age requirements for both in-person and online sales, and offer free-online resources that hospitality venues and retailers can use to empower their staff to sell, deliver, and serve alcohol responsibly. By adhering to these global standards, integrating them into contractual agreements and practices, and working with partners across the value chain, we are working to establish a positive movement for change.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for affiliated organizations.

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: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 51
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $919K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.5M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.