United Way of Cleveland County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 566030073
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Shelby, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7044827344
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,483,018
- Expenses
- $1,409,868
- Assets
- $1,498,930
- Liabilities
- $743,767
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Leslie J Cobb (Executive Dir.): $94,191 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Children's Homes of Cleveland CountyThe Program provides services for Cleveland County children and families. School aged children ages 5-21 can live in a safe stable environment in one of the two residential facilities; Aarons House and James Home. The ultimate goal is to serve children and families in crisis so they can leave the group home and go to a safe, stable permanent family. The primary clients are children between 5 & 18 who have victims of abuse and/or neglect.Cleveland County Abuse Prevention CouncilServices for victims of Sexual Assault provides confidential services to adults and teens that have been affected by unfortunate situations. This includes crisis response, a 24-hour emergency hotline, safe shelter, counseling and court advocacy. Shelter Services provide emergency shelter for women and their children in need of temporary assistance. During the stay services are centered on helping clients to obtain independent living.The Boys and Girls ClubThe program provides one on one support after school with homework, character building and tutoring. Many of the kids attending the program do not have support at home and therefore the programming provided by the staff and volunteers at the club is very important in participants doing well in the classroom. Primary clients are students from all grade levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 39% for direct work, 59% for grants, and 1% for affiliated organizations.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.