United Way of Thurston County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910713462
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3607566943
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $344,176
- Expenses
- $702,682
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR TIMOTHY STOKES (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MEGHAN VU (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTIAN WELLS THARP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTIAN WELLS THARP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $64,551 total reported compensation
- RICHELE CENTER (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $50,181 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United way of thurston county mobilizes the caring power of our community to fight for the health, education and financial stability of every person in thurston county.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other uwtc community impact areas: with a focus on health, education, and financial stability united way of thurston county provides support and administration of the point-in-time homeless count, and day of caring, an annual community clean-up and restoration event. Uwtc also serves as the backbone of the emergency food and shelter program, which is a federal program, that enables federal support to flow to agencies that provide emergency food and shelter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.1%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 15
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -104.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.1% of revenue deployed · 14.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.