United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550665618
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lewisburg, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3046473783
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $694,525
- Expenses
- $727,077
- Assets
- $573,500
- Liabilities
- $120,650
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARON ROWE (PRESIDENT)
- ANDY RICE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN RAINIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ERICA VAUGHAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LAUREN RAINIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $35,000 total reported compensation
- ERICA VAUGHAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $16,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission: to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the communities in pocahontas, greenbrier, and monroe counties, West Virginia. The mission includes providing a conduit for the public to support specific organizations and, at the same time, provide for the expansion of their charity dollars to organizations requesting the assistance of the united way.
What it reported doing in 2024
United way provides a comprehensive community focus on providing much-needed support to community organizations, many of which could not maintain their public service efforts without the financial assistance and leadership example they receive as a supported agency. United way also provides a means of communication so that the general public, through its donations and specifications, voices an opinion on those programs and organizations which are important to a particular community. Those programs include, but are not limited to youth organizations, senior citizens activities, and others who may be in need financially.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87.1%; rating input score 87; 37th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -4.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $633K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.