Wilderness Well
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921310636
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Rosemount, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6127160425
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,013
- Expenses
- $50,287
- Assets
- $28,198
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REBECCA POTTER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- REBECCA POTTER (PRESIDENT)
- JULIA HOLTZE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- BETH JONES (TREASURER)
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
Provide a safe space for the spiritually hungry and thirsty, bringing healing and empowerment through curiosity, compassion, and connection—using a pay-as-you-can model to reduce financial barriers and support spiritual companionship, groups/retreats, and connection to additional resources. This service allows us to analyze user behavior on our website to improve its functionality and user experience. IONOS SiteAnalytics helps us understand how visitors interact with our content, which pages are most popular, and how we can optimize our site's technical performance. Data Purposes This list represents the purposes of the data collection and processing. Divine Trust: Depending on a God who provides and guides Empowerment: Helping others discover and bring their unique gifts and strengths into the world, resulting in empowered people who empower people. Freedom: Overcoming injustice...
What it reported doing in 2025
Offered more than 325 individual spiritual companion sessions; stepped into our second year of the wilderness well spiritual journey cohort, gathering through multiple retreats and smaller spiritual circles. (12 people including three leaders) (three retreats in 2025); launched an online version of the wilderness well spiritual journey that meets once per month in large group gatherings, and a second time each month in smaller spiritual direction circles. (started with 11 people including 3 leaders. Fyi, ended with 9 including three leaders); partnered with second-year students at christos center for spiritual formation, giving them the opportunity to facilitate our circles as part of their internships; began exploring a re-purposing ministry, serving those in transition with a place to donate their furniture and home goods, capturing the stories behind them, selling them at reasonable prices, and building a self-support model for wilderness well; continued discerning and dreaming about the future of wilderness well and the needs of our communities; 168 program development hours not including volunteer time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.