American Unity Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461707548
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027507226
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,417,500
- Expenses
- $3,052,908
- Assets
- $372,127
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET HOOVER (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARGARET HOOVER (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT)
- ROB SHEKELL (DIRECTOR)
- KIRK FORDHAM (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
American unity fund (auf) is dedicated to engaging republicans and republican officeholders to advance the cause of freedom for lgbtq americans.
What it reported doing in 2024
American unity fund, in furtherance of its social welfare mission to advance freedom for lgbtq americans, engages federal elected officials and officeholders to influence public policy. Areas of advocacy included marriage recognition, nondiscrimination and encouraging an american foreign policy that respects and emboldens individual freedoms. At the state level, american unity fund also engages in lobbying to promote freedom for lgbtq americans. Auf focused on expanding support for civil rights for gay and transgender americans. Auf supported legislation that enacts freedom to marry for same-sex couples, civil rights protections for sexual orientation, and gender identity/expressions. Auf worked to defeat legislation that would undermine various protections gay and transgender americans already receive under the law.
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 96% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94%; rating input score 94; 29th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -26.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.