Unite Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473450487
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5099984228
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $722,094
- Expenses
- $543,497
- Assets
- $428,257
- Liabilities
- $2,341
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE K ACHENBACH (PRESIDENT)
- MELIKE BLUDAU (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CANDICE K ACHENBACH (PRESIDENT): $66,958 total reported compensation
- MELIKE BLUDAU (VICE PRESIDENT): $64,436 total reported compensation
- KAREN D MORRIS (SECRETARY): $52,849 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Unite family services provides safety to allow medically complicated children to participate in visitation, create a partnership between families, foster families and providers to ensure training and consistency of care, and equip families with confidence, knowledge and skills to safely care for their child independently.
What it reported doing in 2020
Unite family services provides visitation with medically complicated children and their families this includes direct supervised visits, monitored vists, transportation to the visit location. During the visits the staff creates a partnership between families, foster families and providers to ensure addequate training and consistency of care. The intent is that the families of these children will be able to safely care for their children independently and increase the successful reunifiction of medically complicated children with their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.3%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.3% of revenue deployed · 60.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $327K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 3 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.