The Wedi Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 542014909
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023299700
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $1,183
- Assets
- $17,883
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT TENNANT (Executive Director BEG. 2/25)
- CHARLES STELLAR (PRESIDENT & CEO THRU 2/25)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT TENNANT (Executive Director BEG. 2/25): $225,000 total reported compensation
- CHARLES STELLAR (PRESIDENT & CEO THRU 2/25): $199,651 total reported compensation
- NANCY SPECTOR (DIRECTOR): $125,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The wedi foundation is a supporting organization for the workgroup for electronic data interchange.
What it reported doing in 2025
Development of and publishing of report: closing gaps in care through health data exchange.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.12; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 785.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -41% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $225K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.