Graham County Utilities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860626208
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Pima, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9284852451
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,124,227
- Expenses
- $4,316,686
- Assets
- $5,804,263
- Liabilities
- $6,564,812
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF LARSON (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN HOOPER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY GRAY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY GRAY (CEO): $341,517 total reported compensation
- THAN ASHBY (CFO): $132,206 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are committed to provide safe, reliable and efficient resources to enahance the lives of our members and the communities we serve.
What it reported doing in 2020
Natural gas division: the cooperative owns and operates a natural gas distribution system. Through this infrastructure, it purchases, transports and distributes natural gas to the members. Such services are provided on a patronage basis. Patronage capital is allocable to the members when cumulative net margins exceed cumulative losses. At year end there 6,188 natural gas meters served by 209 miles of main lines and 84 miles of service lines.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.13; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $342K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2.6M reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.