Wellstar
Legal name: Wellstar Mcg Health Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272999718
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Phone
- (770) 956-7827
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,492,620
- Expenses
- $107,523,581
- Assets
- $100,393,486
- Liabilities
- $41,236,001
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $5,069,923 total reported compensation
- LEO REICHERT (EVP & GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,619,966 total reported compensation
- RICHARD CAPPS (EVP CHIEF INFO & DIGITAL OFFCR): $1,579,418 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission is to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 58.8%; rating input score 59; 16th 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: -0%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -30% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.1M · 35 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.