Uuani
Legal name: Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811573740
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7737062483
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,525
- Expenses
- $76,248
- Assets
- $79,277
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Aaseng (Executive Director)
- Chuck Ruth (President)
- Sallee Lowery (Vice-President)
- Natasha Walker (Incoming Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Scott Aaseng (Executive Director)
- Chuck Ruth (President)
- Sallee Lowery (Vice-President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
UUANI builds power among UU congregations in Illinois to accountably advocate with those who have been historically marginalized. We build power among UU congregations in Illinois to accountably advocate with those who have been historically marginalized. A clear glass bowl full of rocks with inspirational quotes on them. A white candle stands in the middle of the bowl. UUANI is supported by contributions from Unitarian Universalist individuals and congregations all across Illinois, and by grants from the Fund for Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility, the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice, Side With Love and the Chicago Area UU Council. We are grateful for each of these forms of support! DONATE Who We Are.
What it reported doing in 2025
Research and education regarding social justice issues and how they relate to Unitarian Universalist values and principles and to our partner networks; this includes developing communication channels and tools for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information for these purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.