Wezesha Dada Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 372063264
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7194350422
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,287
- Expenses
- $149,837
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAYA WHEELER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MAYA WHEELER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHELESE RANSOM (BOARD CHAIR)
- TERRY SNYDER (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wezesha dada center (wdc) empowers individuals especially women, immigrants, and underrepresented communities through programs that support entrepreneurship financial access peer connection and holistic wellness. Our services include business education and consulting referrals to funding and capital peer networking events and self-empowerment classes focused on health safety and work-life balance. These programs are delivered in-person and online and are supported through grants sponsorships and partnerships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Holistic Health - Health Insurance, Family & Kinship Support: WDC worked to improve access to health coverage and health-related resources through health insurance literacy, education, community outreach, resource navigation, and referrals. During 2025, WDC conducted 53 health insurance education and referral activities. WDC educated community members about available health coverage options and referred individuals to Connect for Health Colorado assisters and OmniSalud providers for enrollment assistance. WDC did not directly process health insurance enrollments and therefore did not track individuals' final enrollment outcomes. WDC also expanded the reach of its health insurance education through social media and WhatsApp outreach, reaching thousands of community members with health insurance information, enrollment resources, and information about where to obtain assistance. WDC's holistic health activities also included connecting community members with mental and behavioral health information and resources to help reduce barriers to accessing appropriate services and care. In addition, WDC advanced the development of a Colorado specialty license plate initiative supporting grandparents and kinship caregivers raising grandchildren and other relative children. The initiative is intended to raise awareness of kinship families, recognize the important role of grandparents and other relative caregivers, and generate support for programs and resources that strengthen families and help maintain meaningful connections between children, grandparents, and extended family members. Primary funding/support: Colorado Department of Insurance and Denver Foundation. Colorado Department of Insurance - $15,000, Denver Foundation - $2,390
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -66%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -45.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.