United Way of York County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178430957
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,824,260
- Expenses
- $4,756,707
- Assets
- $9,602,163
- Liabilities
- $1,643,252
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN GRIMM (PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN GRIMM (PRESIDENT/SECRETARY): $194,219 total reported compensation
- KIM ALVAREZ (VP OF DONOR RELATIONS): $132,996 total reported compensation
- RUSSELL REESER (VP OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS): $125,057 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We assist working households in our community to achieve financial stability by collaboratively and equitably reducing barriers to prosperity.
What it reported doing in 2024
The childcare focus area supports york county families in their journey towards finding affordable quality early learning experiences for their children, by providing scholarships to families and grants to early childhood education (ece) centers. To qualify for a scholarship, the parent(s) of the student(s) must either reside or be employed by a company located in york county. There must be one person employed full-time in the household. The student must be a resident of Pennsylvania. An eligible student is a child 6 weeks through 5 years of age. If a scholarship recipient turns 6 years of age during the period of the award, the scholarship will be awarded through the month of the child's sixth birthday. The child must attend an approved program and be a member of a household with an annual household income of not more than $100,000. To qualify for an early childhood education center grant, the ece center must have a keystone quality star rating of 3 or 4 as determined by the Pennsylvania office of child development and early learning and hold an active operating license with the Pennsylvania department of human services. They must be a 501c3 non-profit organization registered in the state of Pennsylvania. There is also funding provided to every child has opportunities (echo), a coalition of funders and providers supporting new childcare startups and expanding existing programs in york county, pa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 66% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.8%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.2%; rating input score 90; 26th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.8% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $194K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 59 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 55 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.