United Way of Bemidji Area
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411567744
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bemidji, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2184448929
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,327,489
- Expenses
- $1,171,251
- Assets
- $2,189,429
- Liabilities
- $1,236,541
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUSTIN KANEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DENAE ALAMANO (EXECUTIVE DI): $91,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United way of bemidji area's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community. Our focus on advancing the common good creates a meaningful difference in the lives of area children, youth, aging adults and their caregivers, people in crisis and people with mental and physical disabilities by focusing on the building blocks for a good life: education - helping children, youth and adults achieve their full potential; income - promoting financial stability, increasing self- sufficiency and independence; and, health - improving people's health and social well-being, and providing emergency services. The united way's agenda for advancing the common good includes: investing in nonprofit health and human service programs and services that address the most critical needs and deliver the greatest impact possible; implementing community impact initiatives and support year round programs that address new and emerging needs; and, forming strategic partnerships and collabo
What it reported doing in 2024
United way of bemidji area strategically invests dollars in reputable, knowledgeable agencies that build a solid network of support around our community in the areas of education, income and health. The community investment process ensures that united way's investments in nonprofit programs and initiatives address the root cause of the most serious human needs in the community and create real, lasting change in people's lives in the areas of education, income and health. The community investment cabinet is the hallmark of united way's accountability to the community. Prior to making funding recommendations to the united way's board of directors, the community investment cabinet spends countless hours thoroughly reviewing applications for funding, including interviewing the agencies applying for funding, reviewing the agency's financials, the program's outcomes, the agency's collaborative efforts, the agency's ability to effectively meet community and client needs, and the alignment to united way's focus on advancing the common good. The board of directors is responsible for final investment decisions when they approve the total investments to partner agencies each year. Additional investments are approved by the board of directors to implement community impact initiatives and programs that address gaps in responding to critical, new and emerging community needs around the areas of education, income and health.
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 program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 85.6%; rating input score 86; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.