United Way of Adams County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231663379
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Gettysburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7173345809
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $232,491
- Expenses
- $256,653
- Assets
- $530,453
- Liabilities
- $206,813
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA MCMAHON (Past Exec Dir.): $71,169 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Uwac works to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through programs and initiatives that ensure our children enter school ready to learn and graduate on time, that every family is financially secure and that everyone has good health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Woman's purse - a woman's purse is the women's leadership initiative of uwac, and helps foster youths, ages 16 to 21, transition from foster care to independence. A woman's purse is part of a national women's movement at more than 250 united ways across the country. A woman's purse focuses its strengths and investments on a partnership with adams county children and youth services' independent living program. The independent living program is the county's only safety net for foster youths transitioning to self-sufficiency. By making an investment to better prepare and advise them during the emancipation process and support them during and after their transition, foster youth can acquire the life-long skills and connections they need to succeed. Members of a woman's puse serve as mentors to the foster youths, help them secure needed services, provide financial assistance for education and life's unexpected costs, and serve as a forece of stability in their lives. The women share their time, talents, and treasures to help them work toward independent living. Parner agencies - uwa, uwww, and uwp
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $205K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.