International Foundation for Valuing Impacts Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883171997
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dover, DE, USA
Phone
9134868432
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Economics

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,812,748
Expenses
$3,241,830
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • T ROBERT ZOCHOWSKI (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • T ROBERT ZOCHOWSKI (PRESIDENT): $323,702 total reported compensation
  • ANDREA SERRA (CHIEF MARKET DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $192,294 total reported compensation
  • WHITNEY POLLACK DESERIO (ASSISTANT SECRETARY): $154,803 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Ifvi's mission is to build and scale the practice of impact accounting to promote decision-making based on risk, return, and impact.

What it reported doing in 2025

Marketing development: ifvi's market development work ensures that mandatory impact accounting is achievable by accelerating its adoption and bringing it to the core of business decision-making. Ifvi's core market development activities include testing: supporting and expanding piloting of impact accounting by corporates, investors and the public sector. Evidence: disseminating robust evidence of uptake and case studies from early adopters across numerous sectors. Capacity building: developing guidance, practitioner guides, training modules, and potential accreditation programs to build the capacity of individuals and organizations to better understand and implement impact accounting globally. Data tools: exploring interoperable data solutions and integration of impact accounting into leading esg data platforms and management information systems to achieve use at scale by corporates and investors. Policy: engaging in ongoing regulatory processes to embed impact accounting into policy and interpretive guidance globally.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.

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: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 1
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $19.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • 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; 78th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -78.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 53.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 33.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $324K · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.