United Disability Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341374195
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Akron, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3307629755
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,259,766
- Expenses
- $9,120,558
- Assets
- $12,347,754
- Liabilities
- $1,548,325
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN W THOMAS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- KAY SHELLENBERGER LEWIS (VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN W THOMAS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $276,567 total reported compensation
- KAY SHELLENBERGER LEWIS (VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS): $185,051 total reported compensation
- SHELLEY MORRIS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $162,820 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide and support inclusive, life-enriching options through person-centered programs and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
The toy & resource center loans developmental toys and resource materials to anyone working with a child, birth to six years of age with special needs or a child who is developing typically. A special needs division offering specialized adaptive switches and toys is also available. The program served more than 3000 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $56.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $6.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $277K · 23 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $146K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.