The RL Mace Universal Design Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562055623
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8282830626
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,434
- Expenses
- $203,083
- Assets
- $28,066
- Liabilities
- $592
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hugh Kelsey (President)
- Candace Roberts (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Hugh Kelsey (President)
- Candace Roberts (Vice President)
- Richard Duncan (Executive Dir.)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Universal Design Institute is to make the built environment easier to use and safer to live in for everyone at all ages and stages of life. UDI specializes in accessible and universal design in the commercial, public, and residential sectors.
What it reported doing in 2024
HomeFit Community Challenge Grant: Provided design, education and product specifications to programs in 24 states during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.7%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 49.4%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.7% of revenue deployed · 49.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.