Fremont Area United Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 476000166
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fremont, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4027214157
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,477,383
- Expenses
- $1,568,359
- Assets
- $2,701,379
- Liabilities
- $272,624
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- AMY ZIMMER (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- AMANDA HUTTON (Treasurer)
- SHAUN CUSTARD (Chairman)
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
The fremont area united way is working to advance the common good by focusing on a healthy community, youth opportunity, financial security, and community resiliency. Our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent problems from happening in the first place. Our vision for the dodge and Washington counties is to create solutions to community issues where we can make a difference. We hope you want to be a part of the change. We think we can do more together than any of us can do alone. This is what it means to "live united."
What it reported doing in 2024
The Fremont Area United Way seeks to identify the most pressing health and human service issues in our local community and distribute resources in such a way as to make the greatest impact possible- to create real, lasting changes in the lives of our neighbors in the areas of education, income, and health.The numerous programs funded by UW grants promoted early learning and success in school, helped families move to financial stability, and supported access to health care and improving family well-being. Fremont Area United Way is embracing United Way World Wide change to moving to community impact work and improving community outcomes with local partners.United Way is leading a community collaboration in creating community change. United Way is leading a community transformation to address school readiness, social and emotional needs, as well as prevention work. United Way has received many grants to support community change.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.3%; rating input score 97; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -6.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.