United Way of South Mississippi

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
640826356
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Gulfport, MS, USA
Phone
2288962213
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,856,291
Expenses
$1,934,828
Assets
$1,130,328
Liabilities
$147,271

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCOTT GREGORY (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • ELSE' MARIE (PRESIDENT)
  • JANELL NOLAN (VICE PRESIDENT OF VOLUNTEERS & SPECIAL PROJECTS)
  • AMY BATESON (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
  • NIKKI JOHNS (VICE PRESIDENT OF RESOURCE)
  • JAMES KAIGLER (PRESIDENT ELECT/VP COMMUNITY IMPACT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KATHY SPRINGER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $129,376 total reported compensation
  • KRISTIN PEARSON (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $57,704 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 leads positive change that transforms our community and improves people's lives in our impact area. We advance the common good by investing in our greatest asset - our children and their families - to create a better tommorrow today.

What it reported doing in 2024

During fye 2024, united way of south Mississippi worked to develop and implement long-term solutions to address school readiness and grade-level reading. Data from the annie e. Casey foundation 2024 kids count data book shows Mississippi's overall rank of 49 in child and family well-being across the u.s. Using 16 key indicators in four domains: economic well-being; education; health; family & community. According to this data, 50% of young children ages 3 to 4 are not in school. In addition, the same study indicates 69% of Mississippi's fourth graders are not at grade level proficiency in reading. Uwsm believes the community's most critical resources are children and families, and united way of south Mississippi invested resources through several education initiatives. Initiatives included dolly parton's imagination library, which distributed 18,451 free books to local children; and prek4ward, which offers tuition-free preschool to 180 area children across 9 classrooms. Additionally, uwsm funds the nourishing place's enhance after school tutoring program, manna ministries head and heart tutoring program, university of southern Mississippi's children's center, and moore community house early prek program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • 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: -4.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 24 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 14 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.
  • 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 35/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.