International Womens Forum-Northern CA IWF-Northern California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942581427
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Folsom, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152279987
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $299,598
- Expenses
- $275,284
- Assets
- $417,610
- Liabilities
- $106,063
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Heather Pelant (President)
- Pam Baker (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Marsha Takagi (Exec Director): $106,817 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 Organization's Mission is achieved through the following activities:* Social interaction with peers on a regional, national and international level* Exposure to cross discipline accomplished women leaders* Recognition for career accomplishments* Education on current national and global economic, political and social issues* Ability to attend cultural, and fine art activities with members* Access to conferences, inter-forum exchanges on a national and international basis* Local forum programs tapping members knowledge as well as interaction with local * leaders and experts* Joint programs with other organizations on matters of common interest such as "Women on Public Corporate Boards"
What it reported doing in 2025
The International Womens Forum is a unique organization comprised of more than 8,400 dynamic women leaders in 35 countries and 77 forums around the world. IWF members span careers, cultures and continents, however they are wholly aligned in their commitment to building better global leadership.IWF Northern California is one of 77 forums in 35 countries, advancing Women's leadership across careers, cultures and continents by connecting the World's most preeminent women of significant and diverse achievement. IWF has no political agenda. The organization's focus is promoting women in leadership and shaping a transferable legacy for future women leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 8.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 60.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $167K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.