United Way of Northern Utah

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
870224251
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Ogden, UT, USA
Phone
8013995584
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,190,012
Expenses
$5,558,254
Assets
$6,898,074
Liabilities
$819,668

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JULIE JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JULIE JOHNSON (PRESIDENT): $141,905 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We unite people and organizations to build a healthy, stable, and well-educated community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Alliance/strategic health partnership - in october 2018, uwnu entered into a multi-year agreement with a goal to improve the wellbeing of award recipeints, reduce healthcare costs, and be a model for change by addressing social determinants of health and promote health equity. The alliance is a demonstration project between local, private, and public sectors and funding is allocated to community projects to meet the initiative goals. This project has now been extended through 2024.211- 211 is the most comprehensive source of information about local resources and services in the country. United ways of Utah partner together to provide accurate and relevant health and human service referrals for individuals seeking help in our community. The outcome, 211, provides clarity on where to go and supports making connections to organizations that offer health and service resources all around Utah. 211 connects people to a variety of services, including housing, food, healthcare, and utilities. It is available in more than 200 languages, and you can call on behalf of yourself or friends and family who are looking for assistance navigating services.learn with playgroup - the free learn with playgroup program, is for caregivers and children (aged newborn-5) to learn and have fun with other families from the same geographical area. Each weekly 2-hour session emphasizes social-emotional learning through a wide variety of engaging activities, including free play, circle time, art, singing, reading, movement activities, sensory play and a parent corner. Learn with playgroup families receive: free educational curriculumage-specific development information and parenting tipsfree monthly children's bookbuild your child's librarydedicated play time with other childrenart activitiesparent-child bondingsupport system for parentsnonprofit connection - nonprofit connection supports local nonprofits to increase their capability and capacity by providing training and resources in the 11 critical domains. Nonprofit connection can help your organization build skills and gain knowledge to amplify your impact to build healthy stable and well-educated communities.weber ctc - the weber ctc's mission is to strengthen youth, families, and our community by prioritizing underage substance use prevention and mental health promotion.housing & homelessness - provide backbone support to the weber/morgan local homeless council, carrying forward the everyday work of accomplishing of the council's objectives.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 60% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $18.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 34.2%; rating input score 34; 13th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 29 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 34/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.