United Way of Mclean County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
370661505
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bloomington, IL, USA
Phone
3098287383
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$674,717
Expenses
$1,029,445
Assets
$1,015,062
Liabilities
$155,749

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID TAYLOR (PRESIDENT &)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID TAYLOR (PRESIDENT &): $139,835 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

United way of mclean county improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community to advance the common good. Together, we will: connect and engage all sectors of our community, leverage community resources, and hold ourselves and others accountable.

What it reported doing in 2025

Pathways 2 prosperity: this program is helping residents find future stability through workforce development, educational access, mental health support, and more. Uwmc seeks to increase prosperity by addressing the circumstances and root causes that lead to more than 26,000 mclean county households that struggle financially. In 2025, united way's workforce180 initiative included over 100 young people in various phases of the initiative - from intake to financial self-sufficiency and all points in between. This includes over 20 young people employed in the workforce in mclean county, many of whom are breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty. Workforce180 removes any barriers that these at-risk youth may face, supporting them financially when necessary as well as through mentors and other wraparound supports. In addition to this, uwmc addresses mental health issues affecting local teens through our support of the bridge academy, as well as our thrivemind initiative in partnership with carle bromenn. Youth behavioral health needs represent a continuum, and united way has adopted a strategy of supporting these efforts at various points along this continuum.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 96
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 71.5%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 60.9%; rating input score 61; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 27th 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -52.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $736K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.