International Women's Forum Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
840919612
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2023871010
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,295,969
Expenses
$9,037,103
Assets
$17,707,750
Liabilities
$2,926,508

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

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELISABETH OURLIAC (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHANIE O'KEEFE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHANIE O'KEEFE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $464,167 total reported compensation
  • HEATH NASH (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $307,677 total reported compensation
  • LYNNE MANRIQUE (VP, LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION): $202,578 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership today and tomorrow. Iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in 3 important ways. We connect women leaders through our convenings, providing networking and cutting-edge content essential to global leaders. We catalyze women's leadership through our leadership development programs feature a world class curriculum, mentoring and networking and we celebrate exceptional women leaders through our hall of fame and women who make a difference awards.

What it reported doing in 2025

Catalyze: iwf's world-class leadership fellows program accelerates women's path to the c-suite for women across all sectors. For more than 30 years, the program has provided unique development experiences custom-built for women leaders 3-5 years away from the most senior roles in professions. The program features custom curriculum, best-in-class one-on-one mentoring by iwf members, global networking opportunities and a legacy project designed to leverage the fellowship experience to expand the continuum of women's leadership.leadership intensives: corporations seeking to develop high potential leaders often seek content to supplement their internal training programs. Iwf's leadership intensives are an excellent way to augment existing programs for mid-level leaders. The intensives feature iwf members sharing their experience and expertise on leading through diverse and complex challenges.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 51
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

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

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $464K · 28 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.