Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
870694546
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9164410018
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Voter Education, Registration

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$182,772
Expenses
$146,965
Assets
$175,579
Liabilities
$175,579

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REV DR BETTY STAPLEFORD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • RANWA HAMMAMY (EXECUTIVE DIECTOR): $61,200 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The unitarian universalist legislative ministry, ca is a statewide justice ministry that cultivates and connects leaders and communites to empower the public voice of those who share uu values and principles

What it reported doing in 2020

Spiritual activist leadership training (salt fellows): a ten month parttime program offerings faith based, justice centered experimental learning with a goal of empowering, training and connecting young adults to be agents of change through grassroots, service and advocacy organizations; reflection and study, service, projects and mentoring. Immigant justice-working to empower the voice of disenfranchised communities and people who share our values of human worth and dignity. Education, witness and advocacy efforts from meaningful reforms to immigratiion practices in California and providing dentention center visitations for detainees need. Hrtw and environmental justice, working to implement the new human right around water justice in California by education, connecting and empowering communities around water justice. Working to implement the new human right values related to clmiate change, economic justice and land

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 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 21
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.4%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.