Impact: $810 increases income for a scholarship recipient in need by $3,700. Read More
Executive Women International Scholarship Program (EWISP) and Adult Students in Scholastic Transition (ASIST) meets the benchmark for high cost-effectiveness. The nonprofit increases income for a scholarship recipient by more than $1.50 for every $1 spent.
Note: The impact of this program may not be representative of the entire operation of Executive Women International Business Career Development Program.
Governance: Passes checks
Mission
The 44 affiliate chapters provide education programs grants & scholarships as well as other educational related programs.
Cause
Education
Rated Program
Executive Women International Scholarship Program (EWISP) and Adult Students in Scholastic Transition (ASIST)
Location
Oconomowoc, WI
Website
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Cause
Education
Rated Program
Executive Women International Scholarship Program (EWISP) and Adult Students in Scholastic Transition (ASIST)
Location
Oconomowoc, WI
Website
Executive Women International Scholarship Program (EWISP) and Adult Students in Scholastic Transition (ASIST)
Executive Women International Business Career Development Program grants scholarships to beneficiaries.
Postsecondary Scholarships
People living in poverty
Oconomowoc, WI
Outcomes: Changes in people's lives. They can be caused by a nonprofit.
Costs: The money spent by nonprofits and their partners and beneficiaries.
Impact: The cost to achieve an outcome.
Cost-effectiveness: A judgment as to whether the cost was "worth" the outcome.
Increase in income for a scholarship recipient
To calculate impact, we estimate how many outcomes the nonprofit caused.
Output data collected during the program. Executive Women International Business Career Development Program publicly reports data on the dollar value of all scholarships it grants and the number of scholarship recipients, which we use to calculate the additional income that the nonprofit's scholarship program generates.
Oct. 1, 2016, to Sept. 30, 2017
Ratings are based on data the nonprofit itself collects on its work. We use the most recent year with sufficient data. Typically, this data allows us to calculate direct changes in participants' lives, such as increased income.
We estimate the increase in income caused by a nonprofit's scholarship program in two steps. First, we compare the estimated postsecondary graduation rate of its scholars to that of comparable students who did not receive a scholarship (the “counterfactual”). Our estimates are drawn from rigorous social science studies of similar scholarship programs. The result is the number of scholars whose graduation was caused by the nonprofit. Second, we compare the earnings of graduates to non-graduates based on publicly available census data, matching on student demographic characteristics. We apply the earnings boost owing to a degree to those scholars whose graduation was caused by the nonprofit. Both steps are necessary to properly net out counterfactual successes from observed successes. Otherwise, we would be attributing changes (increase in graduation rate and increase in earnings) to the nonprofit when they would have happened anyway. Few nonprofits estimate the counterfactual themselves, so we construct our own counterfactual estimate based on research and publicly available data.
We don't know if the observed changes were caused by the nonprofit's program or something else happening at the same time (e.g. a participant got a raise). To determine causation, we take the outcomes we observe and subtract an estimate of the outcomes that would have happened even without the program (i.e. counterfactual outcomes).
Cost data reported by Executive Women International Business Career Development Program and data and assumptions about partner and beneficiary costs.
$803,347 program costs + $1,415,637 partner costs + $1,415,637 beneficiary costs = $3,634,621 total costs
After estimating the program's outcomes, we need to determine how much it cost to achieve those outcomes. All monetary costs are counted, whether they are borne by a nonprofit service deliverer or by the nonprofit’s public and private partners. In-kind donations, of labor or supplies, are not counted.
$3,634,621 total costs / $16,701,224 additional income = roughly $800 increases income for a scholarship recipient in need by $4000.
Numbers may not divide precisely due to rounding and time discounting.
We calculate impact, defined as the change in outcomes attributable to a program divided by the cost to achieve those outcomes.
Impact ratings of postsecondary scholarship programs are based on income generated relative to cost. Programs receive 5 stars if they increase income for a recipient by more than $1.50 for every $1 spent and 4 stars if income increases by more than $0.85 for every $1 spent. If a nonprofit reports impact but doesn't meet the benchmark for cost-effectiveness, it earns 3 stars.
The nonprofit increases income for a scholarship recipient by more than $1.50 for every $1 spent.
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There are indications of governance or financial health issues at the nonprofit.
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Analysis conducted by ImpactMatters and published on November 22, 2019.
An ImpactMatters analyst searched the Form 990s, annual reports, audited financials and the website of Executive Women International Business Career Development Program to calculate impact and rate cost-effectiveness. A second analyst conducted quality control.
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Executive Women International Business Career Development Program passes our governance check.
Overhead spending is reasonable (<35% of total spending)
Charity Navigator has not issued a fraud or mismanagement advisory
Executive Women International Business Career Development Program itself has not reported any material diversions of assets
Executive Women International Business Career Development Program itself has not reported any excess benefit transactions
Source: Executive Women International Business Career Development Program Form 990 and Charity Navigator
This rating is based on ImpactMatters analysis of the impact of Executive Women International Scholarship Program (EWISP) and Adult Students in Scholastic Transition (ASIST) relative to costs. Impact is the change in the social outcomes of people served by the program, net of the change that would have happened even without the program (the “counterfactual”); divided by cost. Learn more.
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