United Way of North Central Oklahoma Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 730726446
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Ponca City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 5807652476
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,021,203
- Expenses
- $858,001
- Assets
- $2,295,935
- Liabilities
- $389,448
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNY CREECH (President)
- CHAD SCANTLIN (Vice President)
- STEVE KELLEY (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TARA GOLDMAN (Executive Dir.)
- KATIE LARSSEN (BOARD MEMBER)
- IAN FREEMAN (ASST VP)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the United Way of North Central Oklahoma is to improve lives with the caring power of community by: Strengthening the community through compassionate collaboration, involvement and volunteerism; Embracing educational opportunities in a changing environment; and Serving as generous stewards of community resources with high ethics, transparency and integrity.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization was created to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of the communities. The organization invest resources to address the most important needs of our communities by partnering with agencies that provide programs that meet the organization's goals in the following community impact agreas: education, financial stability and health and safety. The organization received direct contributions, grants, and conduct an annual campaign to generate resources for the community. The annual allocations were distributed to various partner agencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for direct work, and 55% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 46th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.68; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $714K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.