Brown County United Way

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
390806299
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Green Bay, WI, USA
Phone
9204323393
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,302,652
Expenses
$4,064,123
Assets
$6,134,016
Liabilities
$682,332

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBYN DAVIS (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ROBYN DAVIS (PRESIDENT/CEO): $162,365 total reported compensation
  • CHERYL CERRATO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $125,443 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Brown county united way unites people, ideas, and resources to create community solutions that strengthen every person and every community in brown county.

What it reported doing in 2025

Impact initiatives and advocacy solutions - in the area of impact initiatives, we are leading and partnering on efforts to bring about physical and social environment change to improve community systems. Beginning in 2019, the majority of our impact initiatives became place-based, focusing primarily on neighborhoods. Our central objectives are to improve social cohesion, growth, and vitality through research, evidence, community partnerships, and the voices of residents, helping to ensure that neighborhoods are safe places where people can thrive. In support of this work, during 2025 our community investment staff organized and lead community building activities, numerous volunteer projects, and events, and surveyed community members. Our neighborhood partnership grant program, established in 2020, continued to invest in neighborhood-based projects and initiatives, including a community gardens project. The staff team also organized trauma-informed care trainings for human service providers and other partners, began developing a new training program focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.with respect to advocacy solutions, our objective in this area is to seek out the voice of the community and advocate for policy change. Our voice of alice research, launched in 2019, captured the live experiences of individuals and families in our community who are struggling to meet basic needs. Their experiences, coupled with additional qualitative and quantitative research, is shaping our new advocacy agenda, which is guided by our advocacy council. During 2025, community investment staff and the advocacy council continued to refine an advocacy agenda and also developed a new community initiative called hubcap, which will deliver services to people where they live and work through three types of vehicles and many collaborating agencies. We also continued to partner with others at local, state, and federal levels to provide information about community needs and co-create solutions regarding issues such as childcare, mental wellness, nonprofit stability, and housing/homelessness.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, 53% for grants, and 0% for affiliated organizations.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 46th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -23.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 28 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 37 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.