South-Southwest Surburban United Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237144594
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Matteson, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7082487910
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,705,615
- Expenses
- $2,488,507
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mike Wojcik (President)
- Johanns Williams (Vice President)
- Patrick Smith (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Yvonne Orr (Chief Professional Officer): $81,584 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
South-southwest suburban united way improves lives by mobilizing caring people to invest in the community where their resources are needed most.
What it reported doing in 2014
EDUCATION The focus of education work for the south-southwest united way is On two critical transition points in a child's educational career - starting kindergarten and beginning high school. United way Supports quality early learning programs, mostly preschool, and Provides afterschool programming for struggling middle school students to help them academically and socially so that they enter High school on track for graduation. For the year ending June 30, 2015, We helped 1,038 young children improve their screening scores and Provided 1,135 children with well child checkups. For the Middle school population in the south and southwest suburbs, we served 2,105 young people with programming. 2,092 previously underperforming youth were promoted to the next grade on track for graduation. Form 990, Part III, Line 4D ALL OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS Designations to other 501(c)(3) organizations paid directly by the Donor and other exempt purposes. Year-End Net Assets Transfer $598,872 Designations $4,910
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 83%; rating input score 83; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -43.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 35 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 34 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.