International Ombuds Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541785444
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062095275
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,463,503
- Expenses
- $1,341,904
- Assets
- $949,949
- Liabilities
- $64,040
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MAHONYJD (PRESIDENT)
- WAYNE FRANCIS MARRIOTT MA (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- SARAH KLAPERJD (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER MAHONYJD (PRESIDENT)
- WAYNE FRANCIS MARRIOTT MA (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- LILY XU MBA CO-OP (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide education, seminars, newsletters, and publications to ombuds professionals to increase specialized knowledge and skills of the profession
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide training seminars to organizational ombuds to increase specialized skills in the profession. Serve over 1000 member organizational ombuds by providing courses and newsletters/publications to circulate information regarding the profession.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $300K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $666K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 21 current checks pass · 10 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX AllOtherExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesLegal column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesManagement column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesOther column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.