The records of the Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund are continuous throughout the years 1969 through 1996; more records will be added when they are no longer in current use by the organization. Approximately half of the collection is comprised of files of the Officers, the Board of Trustees/Directors, and the Annual Meetings of the general membership. The administrative files are complete and span the organization's entire history, with some exceptions: the records of the Secretary and the Treasurer cover only the years 1970 through 1978, and the years 1985 and 1986 are missing from the files of the Board of Directors/Trustees. The correspondence and memoranda are extensive, and reveal much about the workings of the Officers and the Board with regard to the purpose and functioning of the organization. The other half of the collection consists of the files of various committees, including those of the Project Grants Committee, whose members screen grant applications and recommend, semi-annually, the most promising ones to the Board of Trustees/Directors for funding. Records of VGIF sponsorship of the International Federation of University Women and of the Asian Women's Institute are particularly strong, and other project grants are also well-documented.

This collection is organized into two series:

• I. Administration
• II. Committees