Women Forward International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831309970
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027504111
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $234,075
- Expenses
- $273,604
- Assets
- $81,005
- Liabilities
- $2,916
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENT DAVIS-PACKARD PHD (PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRE)
Highest reported compensation
- KENT DAVIS-PACKARD PHD (PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRE): $76,654 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Women forward international (wfi) partners the next generation with nonprofit and private sector organizations and artists to implement solutions critical to human process, bridging mind and heart to bring about unity, collaboration, and service to humanity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sharing the abundance: implementing a food rescue model in mexicoduring 2025, wfi completed its successful pilot program, wings of love, in veracruz with the universidad veracruzana and expanded it to oaxaca by establishing partnerships with the universidad benito jaures, the guelaguetza rotary club, the oaxaca food bank, and think up university collective to strengthen local food recovery efforts and community engagement. The purpose of wings of love is to spread a new paradigm of philanthropy based on the concept of "shared abundance and the idea that this is not "charity" but rather a natural response by the community to ensure everyone has access to the abundance of resources available to them. Inspired by the collaborative food rescue approach developed by the founder of the white pony express in California, which wfi previously supported through graduate student teams and grant funding, wings of love adapts this model to the mexican context by connecting universities, food banks, rotary clubs, businesses, and community organizations to recover and redistribute surplus food and reduce food waste, which is among the greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.as women and girls are the most vulnerable to food insecurity, wings of love in mexico focuses primarily on this demographic, serving up to 150 women on a monthly basis through food rescue and vital supplies distribution including kitchen equipment, children's toys and diapers, and new clothing, as well workshops that help move the women "from the margins to the mainstream." during the reporting period, the program conducted food recovery and distribution activities and facilitated workshops focused on women's leadership, health, and financial literacy. The initiative also expanded opportunities for civic engagement by involving university students, local organizations, and community volunteers in a collaborative model based on shared responsibility and local participation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.2%; rating input score 96; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $204K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.