Pathfinder International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530235320
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 6179247200
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,896,435
- Expenses
- $109,730,617
- Assets
- $70,212,876
- Liabilities
- $30,545,353
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MS TABINDA SAROSH (CEO (FROM 2/3/25))
- MS LYDIA SALOUKOU (PRESIDENT - AFRICA)
- MS CRYSTAL LANDER EXECUTIVE (VICE PRESIDENT (UNTIL 3/3/25))
- MS LOIS QUAM (FORMER CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MS LOIS QUAM (FORMER CEO): $369,052 total reported compensation
- MS NATASHA SAKOLSKY DEPT (CHIEF INNOV. & ENG. (UNTIL 3/31/25)): $322,671 total reported compensation
- MR JOSEPH PERERA (CFO/TREASURER (UNTIL 6/27/25)): $318,153 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Working with women to unlock a better future for everyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sub-saharan africa: pathfinder international improves the quality of and access to sexual and reproductive health care and other essential health services. We do this through a locally led approach, working in partnership with the government and local partners to strengthen public health systems, and transforming norms and customs that prevent people from being healthy and living the lives they choose. In sub-saharan africa, our integrated programs strengthen the delivery of contraception, maternal and child health care, comprehensive abortion care, and prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, gender-based violence, and cervical cancer, while contributing to gender equity, climate resilience, and women's economic empowerment. Pathfinder works in countries such as burkina faso, burundi, cote d'ivoire, democratic republic of congo, ethiopia, kenya, mozambique, niger, nigeria, tanzania, and uganda, among others. Many of our programs in africa specifically address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and youth and those living in fragile setting affected by conflict, climate change, and other crises. All of our programs are driven by the knowledge and perspectives of the communities we serve. We work closely with local governmental and NGO partners to develop, plan, implement, and monitor quality interventions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 62% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $62.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th 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: -4.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 89.9% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $369K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 38 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.