United We March Forward
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830902832
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3192108573
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,147
- Expenses
- $112,832
- Assets
- $29,765
- Liabilities
- $10,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mugisha Gloire (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kimberly Dukes (Chair)
- Kasasila Gloire (Secretary)
- Teresa Jensen (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United We March Forward (UWMF) is operating as a community-based charitable nonprofit organization.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grow Pamoja: United We March Forward (UWMF) Grow Pamoja (Swahili meaning together) included urban gardening initiatives and food access support aimed at improving food security, sustainability, and community wellness. Prior to the closure of our 3 food pantries due to funding limitations, the organization serve more than 5,000 individuals monthly through three food pantry sites. These pantry sites supported immigrants families, non-immigrants families, veterans, elderly residents, and young families. The urban gardening initiative supported fourteen immigrant and refugee growers who maintained garden plots, distributed produce at the Downtown Farmers Market, and donated a majority of harvested food through community pantry systems. The program also promoted food equity, urban agriculture education, and economic empowerment. Multiple participants expanded into independent agricultural production, including one participant who established an LLC and now distributes food locally. So far this initiative had produce over 5 individuals who are now upscaling their production. Due to funding challenges, UWMF closed all three food pantry operations in 2025 to preserve long-term organizational sustainability but we continue to support urban growers through gardening initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.