International Womens Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861205481
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4348067660
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,235
- Expenses
- $62,497
- Assets
- $21,848
- Liabilities
- $9
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Autumn Nims (President)
People named in this filing
- Autumn Nims (President)
- Darlene R Winans (Chief Financial Officer)
- Michele DeGarmo (Board Member)
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
The mission of IWM is to wipe the tears of our sisters that work in difficult mission fields. We help women through teaching, training, and equipping. We engage women to live a life fully surrendered to God so that they will reach the unreached and spread the Christian gospel.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program expenses consisted of funding ministries and missionaries around the world - gifts to feed orphans in Uganda; womens ministries, reading glasses, and feminine hygiene kits for women in India and Kenya; scholarship funds for a woman in Kenya to go to university; funding a life-saving surgery for a child in Pakistan, summer camp for youth in the Philippines. Our Wiping Tears Project benefitted a ministry in the Philippines that rescues children from human trafficking. Other indidentals such as wire fees, books and materials are also included here.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.
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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 49th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.8%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.