Wichana Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842881763
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Irvington, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9172730360
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,638
- Expenses
- $100,036
- Assets
- $25,752
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER BERNSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PETER BERNSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH COX (TREASURER)
- KOYA VALENCIA (SECRETARY)
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
To support community-based programs in ecuador that benefit the health, education and culture of community members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education for ecuador: assisting underfunded schools in rural ecuadorian villages including support of a carpentry training program for high school students in the community of san pedro and a tutoring program for blind students in cotacachi
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.6%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 32%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.6% of revenue deployed · 32% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.