The Leadership Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521681028
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024126010
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TONI RANDOLPH (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE O'KEEFE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/SE)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE O'KEEFE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/SE): $469,767 total reported compensation
- HEATH NASH (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $319,054 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. The foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering mentoring, networking and world-class leadership development training. The foundation seeks to increase the number of women in the c-suite and positions of influence globally and fulfills this mission through its flagship initiative, the fellows program.
What it reported doing in 2021
None.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $470K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.