A seventeen-member international board of directors governs the affairs of IFS. The organization is incorporated in the state of New York and its headquarters are based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The volunteer board of directors meets twice each year via conference call and twice each year in a host country. Board members also meet at the bi-annual seminar and once every four years at the all-IFS conference. The board is responsible for developing and approving budgets, guiding policy decisions, setting agendas for conferences and trainings, fundraising, recruiting new members, strategic planning, communicating messages to members, and sharing the resources of IFS with member agencies.