International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464258762
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eau Claire, WI, USA
- Phone
- 3012218636
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $687,697
- Expenses
- $642,892
- Assets
- $221,409
- Liabilities
- $3,475
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLYE EVERSOLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KELLYE EVERSOLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $80,190 total reported compensation
- LORI LEACH (OFFICER): $35,129 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance agricultural research that promotes wheat production by developing dna-based tools and resources through strategic coordination and to freely publish the findings.
What it reported doing in 2024
We began the iwgsc wheat diversity project in january of 2024. This project is generating platinum quality genome assemblies for 13 maximally diverse bread wheat landrace accessions and the community reference cv. Chinese spring, establishing transcriptome data and gene annotations for these accessions and updating the iwgsc cs refseq annotation in a matter that sustains its role as a community-curated resource. We also began constructing a practical haplotype graph to catalog all genetic diversity within bread wheat and enabling community-driven discoveries across the species. This project is coordinated with the iwgsc, inrae, gdec, universite paris-saclay and university of Georgia. All landrace germplasm has been publicly available through inrae small grains brc. We hired an undergraduate intern to work with our team on the wheat diversity project as a part of the stem educator training and public engagement aspect of the project. In 2024, the iwgsc organized 3 workshops in conjunction with plant and animal genome san diego and plant and animal genome australia. We hosted 5 webinars with over 2000 registrations representing 81 countries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 6.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 93.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $602K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.