United Way of Dekalb County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351065714
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Auburn, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2609270995
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $875,267
- Expenses
- $845,184
- Assets
- $1,458,825
- Liabilities
- $157,180
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINA GARR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TYLER CLEVERLY (EXECUTIVE DI): $88,470 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 dekalb county, inc. Is a funding organization whose vision is to enable people to work together creating a thriving and vibrant community for all. United way's mission is to fight for the health, education, and financial stability for every person in our community. The organization was formed in 1960 and is governed by a volunteer board of directors with the input of additional community volunteers at a committee level. The organization partners with local non-profits to help fund their community programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Donor and grant dollars are used to help create a better community by supporting programs that focus on education, health, and financial stability. United way works closely with human service agencies that align with these focus areas. United way of dekalb county partners with singlecare (formerly familywize) to provide prescription discounts to dekalb county residents. During the 2025 day of caring, 62 service projects were completed with the help of approximately 900 volunteers. The united way of dekalb county hosts the power of the purse fundraiser once a year to raise money for community impact grants focused on women and children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 43rd 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: 3.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $603K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.