International Forum on Globalization Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943262147
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155617650
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,096
- Expenses
- $39,371
- Assets
- $1,326
- Liabilities
- $18,925
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Victor Menotti (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- John Cavanagh (Board Member)
- Bing Gong (Treasurer/Sec.)
- Debbie Barker (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A unique collaborative of some of the world's leading activists, scholars and thinkers, IFG organizes large public teach-ins and invitational seminars, and produces publications.
What it reported doing in 2019
Asia-Pacific Program: The Asia-Pacific region encompasses an entire hemisphere: 8,000 miles across the Pacific, 55 countries, 60% of global population, and a majority of the planets remaining resources. Yet even the most shocking events in the region receive little attention from media, even progressive media in the United States. Recent actions and policy shifts by the U.S., China, Russia, Japan, Korea and other Pacific nationseconomic, military, trade, environmentalhave created profoundly negative effects for the peoples and the geo-political situation in the Asia-Pacific region and ultimately the whole world. Particular concerns focus on global corporate resource-raiding intrusions into small island nations, the undermining of indigenous rights and national sovereignties in the region, the terrible environmental effects of the conversion of land and ocean resources to export, and the rapid invasion of enormous new military presences, especially from the United States---now with 400 military bases in the Pacific--- to enforce economic domination of the region. In many places, mass resistance movements are underway. IFG works to bring public attention in the mainland U.S. to the plights of peoples and the environment of the entire Pacific Rim, by way of urgent publications, private and public seminars, including Teach-Ins, and organizing meetings among Pacific peoples.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 60% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 14.27; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -55% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.