Wickr Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473790694
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152869476
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $84,895
- Liabilities
- $13,575
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- NICO SELL (FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN)
- RITA ZOLOTOVA (VP OF STRATEGY)
- JENNIFER DETRANI (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. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance the private web and transform how society uses the internet through education and awareness on topics such as user control and data ownership.
What it reported doing in 2017
See schedule oraising publice awareness on the issues of privacy and information security - wickr foundation works with civil society and journalists to promote deeper understanding and new ideas about how privacy affects each and every aspect of our lives, economy, and global security. The foundation is focused on advancing an international policy discourse by providing timely analysis, and education on issues related to privacy and information security to most vulnerable populations around the world and the public in general.promoting the critical research in the area of privacy rights and security - wickr foundation works to identify and develop research topics critical to promoting the foundation's mission of advancing privacy and information security. As part of this program, the foundation participates in international academic and technology conferences to promote the need for privacy innovation and support exchange of ideas among scholars and civil society. The foundation work to disseminate this research through op-ed articles across various online and offline publications.education programming for youth - through teaching cryptography, white-hat hacking, and the basics of application security, wickr foundation works to empower kids to protect their communities and build better technology. The foundation parents with academic institutions like stanford university and other educational organizations to make interactive training on privacy and security accessible and fun for youth.
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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -58% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -88.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -77.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.