United Way of Southern Chester County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231260899
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kennett Square, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104444357
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $991,624
- Expenses
- $995,551
- Assets
- $1,349,547
- Liabilities
- $736,920
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARCIE MARTIN (CEO)
- CRAIG BLECHER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DARCIE MARTIN (CEO)
- CRAIG BLECHER (PRESIDENT)
- LORRAINE MCCLAIN (VP - ALLOCAT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power and resources of our community; to provide local non-profit agencies with needed financial, professional, and strategic support; and to ensure that contributions fund programs that effectively move people from crisis to independence. We accomplish this by allocating funds raised to programs reviewed and selected by volunteer panels for their effective performance and measurable results. Other service programs are identifying unmet needs and creating pilot programs to address those needs, providing information and referral services for people in need, mentoring nonprofit agencies, and coordinating volunteer activities. We do all this while maintaining the highest standards of excellence in ethics and integrity to ensure success.
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual allocation of grants to non-profit agencies serving the human needs of southern chester county residents. These grants move people from crisis to independence and promote stability/sustainability around health and aging concerns.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 74% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $571.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.5%; rating input score 98; 47th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $889K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 21 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.