Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,958,250 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($530,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $15M
What International Women's Forum Inc does
Mission
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership today and tomorrow. Iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in 3 important ways. We connect women leaders through our convenings, providing networking and cutting-edge content essential to global leaders. We catalyze women's leadership through our leadership development programs feature a world class curriculum, mentoring and networking and we celebrate exceptional women leaders through our hall of fame and women who make a difference awards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content for global leaders. Iwf's two annual conferences, the world leadership conference and cornerstone conference, feature some of the most authoritative and trendsetting voices on issues essential to global leaders in a changing world. The world-class content rivals that found at davos and the aspen institute and is designed to inform leaders' decision making as they lead their organizations. Our conference content is supplemented throughout the year by iwf online exclusives, featuring iwf members' insights and innovations.
$4,486,246 spent$2,809,783 earned by the program58% of program spendingCatalyze:iwf's world-class leadership fellows program accelerates women's path to the c-suite for women across all sectors. For more than 30 years, the program has provided unique development experiences custom-built for women leaders 3-5 years away from the most senior roles in professions. The program features custom curriculum, best-in-class one-on-one mentoring by iwf members, global networking opportunities and a legacy project designed to leverage the fellowship experience to expand the continuum of women's leadership.leadership intensives: corporations seeking to develop high potential leaders often seek content to supplement their internal training programs. Iwf's leadership intensives are an excellent way to augment existing programs for mid-level leaders. The intensives feature iwf members sharing their experience and expertise on leading through diverse and complex challenges.
$1,767,020 spent$1,026,971 earned by the program23% of program spendingMembership: the international women's forum was launched in new york city in 1974, when the first generation of women leaders was breaking the glass ceiling in professional sectors from finance to fine arts. Forum founders created a new women's network to provide professional and personal support, to aid each member's success and to inspire the women who follow.the international women's forum now connects more than 8,400 preeminent women leaders in 77 forums in 36 countries around the world. We are the only organization of this scale that builds significant relationships among c-level women across careers, cultures, and continents. Our members are nobel laureates, olympic athletes, ceos, heads of state, academics, artists, astronauts, lawyers, financiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. Our members build, create, and transform our business, our society and our world.
$1,473,084 spent$1,645,830 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,726,350.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.6M to $15M (+176%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stephanie O'Keefe
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Kimberly Cooper Jaqua
Global board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 22 funders, grant income rose $109k → $395k.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Illinois Women's Forum). These are real filings, and they are not money INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 37% · 2022 33% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $485k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $126k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$126k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC?
- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,958,250 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($530,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,958,250 in grants to INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing