Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841409393
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8013555055
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $539,875
- Expenses
- $674,704
- Assets
- $627,802
- Liabilities
- $66,223
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN TUDDENHAM (EXECUTIVE DI): $101,844 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Heal Utah's mission is to protect Utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
What it reported doing in 2024
Radioactive and toxic waste the organization addresses nuclear waste issues by harnessing the power of grassroots advocates, educating the public on the technical science behind the hazards of nuclear waste, and watchdogging corporations that profit from it. We recognize that radioactive and toxic materials pose an environmental and public health crisis in tandem with our climate crisis. Consequently, heal Utah believes there is no inclusive clean energy future if we continue to ignore the impacts of extraction and industry on public health and frontline communities. When it comes to past, present, and future harms, we must stand with and protect Utah's communities. In 2024 this work included mitigating risks from radioactive waste, creating safe and healthy communities to protect public health, and ensuring strong and accountable mining regulations. This meant that we opposed the importation of high level waste and the expansion of irresponsible uranium mining and milling, advocated for better mining practices in the energy transition, worked to protect downwinders and communities affected by radioactive contamination, advocated for solutions to the toxic dust crisis created by the drying great salt lake, and created programs to expand radon education and mitigation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 57.4%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 57.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $387K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.