United Way of West Central Mn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410844871
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Willmar, MN, USA
- Phone
- 3202351050
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $671,843
- Expenses
- $469,901
- Assets
- $552,848
- Liabilities
- $110,707
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GRIFFIN LEITCH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSH DIERKS (DIRECTOR)
- HANNAH DOUGLASS (DIRECTOR)
- DATRIANA JENSEN (DIRECTOR)
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
United way of west central Minnesota works to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities to create lasting change.
What it reported doing in 2024
Empower: women united is an initiative of the united way and unites women in our communities. The purpose is to educate women about our community's most pressing needs, engage women as philanthropic leaders and active community investors and empower women to be a part of positive change in our community. Their current focus is to address the issue of preparing area children for kindergarten. Empower began ten years ago in kandiyohi county to address the issue of only 50% of kindergarten-aged children being ready to start kindergarten. The litchfield branch of empower began eight years ago. The kandiyohi county empower group utilizes the dollars they raise in four different ways: 5% to support imagination library; 15% for getting educational materials into the hands of parents and funding preschool backpacks that have tools to help prepare preschoolers for kindergarten; 30% of the funds are used to provide early childhood grants addressing school readiness. The remaining 50% goes toward the "growmobile," which is a mobile program that provides onsite preschool in targeted regions in our communities year round. The litchfield empower group hosts events to raise money and awareness in litchfield and the surrounding communities. This group uses the funds raised to pay for transportation costs for area children whose families are unable to provide safe and reliable transportation to and from preschool.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 65.2%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.8% 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: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 65.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $306K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.