United Way of the Blue Mountains
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910730322
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Walla Walla, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5095291183
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,700,473
- Expenses
- $1,338,246
- Assets
- $1,679,817
- Liabilities
- $260,160
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RENATA WART (PRESIDENT)
- AMANDA ANDERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINA LIEUALLEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINA LIEUALLEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $115,504 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Uwbm empowers donors, volunteers, advocates, and agencies to improve the health, education and financial stability of every person in columbia, garfield and walla walla counties in wa and baker, morrow, umatilla, union and wallowa counties in or.
What it reported doing in 2024
As the backbone organization for elevate, a collective impact initiative, we collaborated with a wide range of partners to improve educational outcomes across columbia and walla walla counties in. This year, elevate partners dedicated 720 hours to advancing the initiative's mission562 hours focused on professional development, community of practice, and knowledge building, and 92 hours on community engagement. With 45 partner organizationsincluding k12 schools, higher education institutions, businesses, and community-based organizationselevate played a pivotal role in improving educational alignment and access, especially in the walla walla region.recognizing the importance of early childhood education, we introduced the early learning facilities development & expansion toolkit, a resource created by the elevate early learning facilities work group in partnership with regional stakeholders. This toolkit addresses critical barriers to childcare expansion by supporting providers with planning, facility development, and capital access. Building on studies conducted in 2021 and 2022 that identified a shortage of licensed childcare slots and facility limitations, we collaborated with esd 123 in 2024 to implement a comprehensive expansion plan. These efforts included provider-facility matching and workforce development to ensure more families have access to high-quality, affordable childcare.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, 52% for grants, and 0% for affiliated organizations.
- 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 5.3%; rating input score 5; 25th 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: Fail
- 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: 21.3%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $119K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.