Wilder
Legal name: Amherst H Wilder Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410693889
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- St. Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512802000
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,065,265
- Expenses
- $58,063,011
- Assets
- $211,907,575
- Liabilities
- $39,019,901
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARMANDO CAMACHO (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- JENNIFER HAWKINS (VICE PRESIDENT HUMAN RESOURCES)
- MICHELLE MOREHOUSE (VICE PRESIDENT ADVANCEMENT)
- PAHOUA YANG (VICE PRESIDENT COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS)
- NONA FERGUSON (VICE PRESIDENT ECON STABILITY & AGING SERVICES)
Highest reported compensation
- ARMANDO CAMACHO (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $365,681 total reported compensation
- TOU YANG (LEAD PSYCHIATRIST): $282,948 total reported compensation
- IN-ZU TUAN (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $243,312 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation promotes the well-being of individuals, families, and communities through direct services, research, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Wilder researchwilder research, the research and evaluation arm of wilder, partners with nonprofits, community leaders, government agencies, and policymakers to address complex challenges. By delivering actionable insights and practical evaluation, wilder research helps shape strategies that lead to measurable, positive change for individuals, families, and communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.65; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $47.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $366K · 33 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.4M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.