United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 926003642
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9074527211
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $774,800
- Expenses
- $817,143
- Assets
- $398,629
- Liabilities
- $129,679
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Teresa Thompson (President)
- Kayla Smith (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Sarah Dubowski (CO-ED): $85,306 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The United Way of the Tanana Valley's mission is to support nonprofit agencies providing essential health and human services by offering fundraising, advocacy, and volunteer resources, enabling these agencies to focus on their critical programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
United Way of Tanana Valley, Inc. (United Way) is a nonprofit voluntary health and welfare organization. United Way receives pledges from individuals and business in the Tanana Valley area for the benefit of its member agencies and other designated agencies. United Way provides community service through Community development. Community Development is a program through the United Way of Tanana Valley that provides resources to member agencies and other local nonprofit organizations and services that involve community building. In addition, United Way promotes volunteerism and the recognition of volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, 38% for grants, and 1% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 73.1%; rating input score 73; 33rd 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: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.8% of revenue deployed · 51.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $424K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.