Get Well Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943169037
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Alameda, CA, USA
Phone
5106849620
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,951
Expenses
$10,220
Assets
$569,868
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrew Gaeddert (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ronald Vincent (Secretary/Tr.)
  • Andrew Gaeddert (President)
  • Stephen Feig (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promoting the clinical use of herbs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Get well foundation promotes the clinical use of herbal treatments. Get well has distributed five books about herbal therapies, has hosted seminars on herbal therapies and has sponsored a low cost herbal clinic. Recently, getwell foundation has also hosted a foundation website that provides information about herbal therapies including a self-guided digestive clearing diet program, numerous you tube clips on various herbal treatments and a documentary on long covid. All of this is available free of charge.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 55.76; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.