Wikimedia Foundation Org: $180.2M Revenue, $168.3M Expenses

The efficiency rubric puts Wikimedia Foundation Org at a B grade: a composite of 78/100 that lands above the national midpoint. The grade reflects solid financial reserves alongside reasonable officer compensation and steady revenue.

Annual revenue at Wikimedia Foundation Org runs $180.2M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, Wikimedia Foundation Org scores well — assets relative to annual spending sit in the range nonprofit-finance experts consider healthy (roughly three months to two years of operating expenses).

Revenue has grown meaningfully across the five-year filing history — a sign of expanding donor base, new grants, or scaling programs. Wikimedia Foundation Org reported $180.2M in 2023, up notably from the start of the window. Compensation for current officers and key employees runs $4.1M against $180.2M in revenue — within the band third-party charity raters typically consider reasonable for an organization of this size and complexity. This is an aggregate across all listed officers, not a single executive's salary. In the Education category, Wikimedia Foundation Org sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue figures should be read.