United Way of Genesee County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381359516
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Flint, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8102328121
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,222,118
- Expenses
- $6,063,702
- Assets
- $9,570,518
- Liabilities
- $1,192,583
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES GASKIN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES GASKIN (CEO): $248,057 total reported compensation
- JANIE-LEE VENABLE (VP OF OPERAT): $143,034 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Build financial resources that enable investments in education, financial stability, health and basic needs addressing genesee county and surrounding areas most pressing challenges while building community-wide vitality.
What it reported doing in 2024
United way of genesee county's special initiatives, in collaboration with community partners, focus on the building blocks for a quality life - basic needs/strengthening families, older adults and child/youth development. Donated services related to this program were 124,813 for the year ended june 30, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, 22% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 77.4%; rating input score 77; 21st 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -16.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $248K · 22 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.