United Way North-Northwest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237116020
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Mount Prospect, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8477681257
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,039,475
- Expenses
- $4,409,714
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Deborah Price (President)
- Paul Gallagher (Vice President)
- Joseph M Higgins (Vice President)
- Bob Westropp (Vice President)
- Sarah Flax (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Marcia MaMahon (Chief Professional Officer): $106,776 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of the United Way North-Northwest is to improve lives by mobilizing caring people to invest in the community where their resources are needed the most.
What it reported doing in 2015
Health in health, united way concentrates on connecting individuals to a medical home for consistent care, specifically a primary care physician, provides healthy lifestyle education and programming for young people and connects people to insurance options through the affordable care act. For the year ending june 30, 2016, united way north-northwest connected 2,386 people to a primary care physician; and 3,264 people to insurance or subsidies. On the school-based prevention side, united way north-northwest supported 568 youth with increased access to fresh and healthy foods and 626 young people with access to safe places for physical activity. United way north-northwest supported 100,215 mental and behavioral health sessions for 9,031 people. Basic needs for those most basic needs in our communities, united way north-northwest is a core provider of food, shelter and safety from domestic violence. For the year ending june 30, 2016, united way north-northwest served 698,664 people; including providing 369,820 people with food; 148,699 people with emergency housing or financial assistance to stay in their home; and 7,345 people with safety from violence in the home.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97%; rating input score 97; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -45.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 24 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $182K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 37 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 36 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.