Worldatwork

Overview

Mission

To sponsor and conduct educational conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia for purposes of informing members and other interested parties on current research, legislation and practices in all phases of employee reward programs (continued on schedule o)(continued) including compensation, wages, salaries, incentives, employee benefits and other related forms of employee remuneration.to encourage, promote, and publish research in the field of employee motivation, morale, behavior, performance appraisal, innovative pay and reward systems, productivity management techniques and other functions relative to compensation. To sponsor, support and distribute educational publications pertaining to compensation matters to members, schools, libraries, and other interested parties. To encourage, assist and participate with other educational institutions in stimulating interest in and providing curriculum assistance for courses in the field of compensation, rewards and motivation.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

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 - Most voting board members are independent and revenue has grown recently. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 58
• Transparency & Controls: 51
• Accountability: 87
• Sustainability: 50
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $13.8M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $703K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1M reported
• Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 2 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.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
• Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.