Ada Regional United Way Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 730941532
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- ADA, OK, USA
- Phone
- 5803322313
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,484
- Expenses
- $230,592
- Assets
- $407,937
- Liabilities
- $106,406
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNA WOOD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DREW ADAMS (MEMBER)
- KAITLYN ALEXANDER (MEMBER)
- CASSIE BURROWS (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ada regional united way improves lives in our service area by coordinating long-lasting change in health, education, and financial stability.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ada regional united way (aruw) is involved in a variety of community coordination efforts. The executive director is the chair of the pontotoc county community coalition, a member of the pontotoc county emergency food and shelter local board, and is a member of the pontotoc county drug free coalition. Aruw hosted community events including Oklahoma partnership for school readiness community converstaions and united way family fun day. Aruw hosts the online volunteer site and coordinates volunteers in our entire service area including site and coordinates volunteers in our entire service area including local high schools and the local university. Aruw is the administrator of the service area's charity tracker online case management system which coordinates the efforts of local agencies helping community members move from dependency on services to self-sufficiency. Aruw works with the local health and human services agencies to maximize the impact that their programs are having on the community. By working together, these programs are able to achieve much more than just what their own program can do. Aruw has been instrumental in improving lives in our services area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 71.5%; rating input score 72; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $179K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.