Strategies for International Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 980120837
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025441115
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International, Foreign Affairs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $435,795
- Expenses
- $357,491
- Assets
- $206,427
- Liabilities
- $10,644
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Hirschhorn (Board President)
- Charles Patterson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Judith Russo (Program and Financial Director): $63,360 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Strategies for International Development (SID) develops, applies, and promotes better methods for eradicating rural poverty. We help small farmers make the transition from subsistence to successful commercial farming. We carryout programs in the poorest regions of Guatemala and Peru.
What it reported doing in 2024
In Guatemala, in 2024, we started a second phase in Alta Verapaz in response to some further needs from the farmers in the area. The project aims to help farmers access the specialty coffee market. Coffee with a quality rating over 80 is considered specialty coffee, and farmers in the project produce coffee that rates between 81 and 86.5. In order to help farmers access the specialty coffee market, we are helping them comply with the Starbucks Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) criteria. In addition, 241 families in the project established a producers' association, and we are helping the association's members to take on the marketing of their coffee. Farmers are doing a good job of adopting the Starbucks practices. Their adoption rate was above 50% for most groups of practices and in the high 80s for a few. Members of the Alta Verapaz producers' association sold a micro-lot of 10, 69-kilo bags of coffee to Zeke's Coffee, a D.C. roaster. Zeke's already expressed their interest in ordering another micro-lot for this harvest, plus an additional 40 bags to blend with other coffees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.6% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $282K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.