Winrock International

Legal name: Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
710603560
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Phone
+1 501 280 3000
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International, Foreign Affairs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$119,231,319
Expenses
$118,852,928
Assets
$158,544,133
Liabilities
$71,289,190

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOYJIT DEB ROY (INTERIM CEO/PRESIDENT (UNTIL 6/30/24))
  • MAQSODA MAQSODI (CEO/PRESIDENT (AS OF 7/1/24))
  • MARY GRADY (CEO, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TRUST)

Highest reported compensation

  • MALIKA MAGAGULA (CHIEF OPERATING OFF. (UNTIL 12/2/24)): $497,671 total reported compensation
  • AMANDA HILLIGAS (VP, GLOBAL PROGRAMS (UNTIL 12/2/24)): $461,991 total reported compensation
  • MARY GRADY (CEO, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TRUST): $438,468 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Winrock International works with people in the U.S. and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.

What it reported doing in 2024

Agriculture, resilience and water (arw): arw's purpose is to catalyze transformational and sustainable development gains for the communities that we serve. Arw manages awards for a variety of clients, including USAID and usda in the areas of food security, market systems, water systems, and resilience. Arw partners with communities around the world to address some of the root causes of food, water and economic insecurity by co-creating innovative solutions with farmers, communities, agricultural businesses, cooperatives and other stakeholders across africa, asia, and latin america wallace center: the wallace center brings together diverse people and ideas to co-create solutions that build healthy equitable farms.wallace center: the wallace center brings together diverse people and ideas to co-create solutions that build healthy farms, equitable economies, and resilient food systems in the united states. The center's work focuses on five levers for food systems change catalytic systems leadership; equity and justice in farming and food systems; learning, collaboration, innovation and action across communities; values-based supply chains; and regenerative land use.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Limited
    • Conducts field audits: Limited
    • May suspend future funding: Limited
    • Requires financial reports: Limited
    • Conducts site visits: Limited
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 92.4%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $95.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $498K · 27 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.6M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 35 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 43 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 33 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.