Romesh Wadhwani
Indian-American businessman
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 8/30/2026 (wikidata)
Profile Summary
Romesh Wadhwani is an Indian-American businessman in the technology industry, based in California, born in 1947. He has an estimated net worth of ~$5.5B Wikidata.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR records list Wadhwani as an individual associated with companies including STG UGP, LLC, Onvia Inc., Lawson Software, Chordiant Software, and Workstream SEC EDGAR. His personal SEC record contains 61 insider filings; Forms 3 and 4 generally report an insider’s ownership and transactions in a company’s securities SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Wadhwani Charitable Foundation reported $136.0M in total assets, $3.9M in revenue, $3.8M in expenses, and $4.1M in grants paid for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. The foundation is based in Los Altos, California ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
Federal Election Commission records show 81 contributions totaling $384,700 from June 2003 through July 2021 FEC. Of the reported amount, $274,600 went to Democratic recipients, $4,000 to Republican recipients, and $106,100 to PACs or other recipients FEC.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Top Recipients
Matched by name only. These are the donations the FEC lists under this person’s name — so a different person with the same name can show up here too.
SEC Filings
Associated Companies
Entities appearing alongside this person in SEC full-text search — an association, not necessarily ownership or control. Follow each link to the primary SEC record to judge for yourself.
Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The PBS is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced, public accountability data exists — net worth, political contributions, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, and a verified profile. More public disclosure scores higher.
Data: FEC, SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): PBS = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Transparency
Scored on 8/31/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source. View on Wikidata