UU Justice NC

Overview

Mission

The Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of North Carolina joyfully organizes UUs to co-create a transformative movement for justice through spiritual grounding, collaboration, and imagination. We live into this mission by: Deepening relationships among UU congregations and individuals in NC to both cultivate a network of support and harness our power as 5,000+ UUs in the state. Working in close relationship with justice partners in NC who are aligned with our UU values and doing transformative work in our state. In the fall of 2012, Doug Rhodes created the UU Legislative Ministry of North Carolina. It was a social justice network that connected UUs in the state for five years. Then in 2017, under the leadership of Rev. John Saxon, our state Legislative Ministry was relaunched as the UU Justice Ministry of North Carolina, with the Common name - UU Forward Together. Through a grant...

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 31
• Transparency & Controls: 72
• Accountability: 76
• Sustainability: 70
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 24.4% of revenue deployed · 37% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
• Consistency: 37 of 40 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
• Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 57/100.
• Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticOrgs column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.