Monadnock United Way Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Community building: monadnock united way (muw) works collaboratively to address our community's needs in three focus areas: children, education and financial stability throughout every community in our region. Muw uses a collective impact model to bring people from across all sectors of the monadnock region and state of New Hampshire together to solve these issues in our community: ensuring that children live in safe, nurturing, healthy homes because we have the 3rd highest rate of child abuse and neglect in the state. Ensuring that everyone has the financial resources they need to live healthy, happy and productive lives, because 1 in 4 of us are low income, which is higher than the state average of 1 in 5. And ensuring that everyone in our community receives an education that enables them to achieve their fullest potential because our children score lower than the rest of the state in english and math. These problems are complex and no single organization or individual alone can solve them. By bringing all segments of our community together, we can create long-lasting changes and address the underlying causes of the problems. Muw funds over 30 collectives and individual programs, providing guidance and technical assistance to help funded programs achieve their goals. Muw also brings sectors together to address our region's needs. This includes the business sector, education sector, governmental sector on a local, regional and statewide basis and organizations such as early learning nh, parent info center, connected families nh, healthy monadnock alliance, and nh funder's forum. Monadnock united way serves as the administrator for the federal emergency food and shelter program for cheshire county.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: 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: -5.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings