UniversalGiving

What it reported doing in 2024

Public service (continued from form 990 page 2)universalgiving was featured in more than 20 books, including the new edition harvard review book, hbr guide to delivering effective feedback, arianna huffingtons thrive, and stanford professor laura arrillaga-andreessens giving 2.0.our founder and ceo speaks at many events to help people get involved in giving their money and time. One of the most important ones this year was legacy builders, where she spoke alongside of steve young, former 49ers quarterback, about giving back. She shared how people of means can give back to quality nonprofits all over the world. She demonstrated the quality model and the importance of vetting and universalgivings unique proprietary vetting service. Legacy builders is a series of family office gatherings and events hosted by alan olsen, managing partner of the groco family office and cpa firm. Guy kawasaki, who has 2 million followers on social media, is the creator of guy kawasakis remarkable people podcast interviews with thought leaders, legends, and iconoclasts sharing how they've overcome the extraordinary challenges they've faced in life. Kawasaki, who is a venture capitalist, interviewed our founder and ceo of universalgiving on the remarkable people podcast. Hawley inspired entrepreneurs and leaders worldwide about how to be a great start-up entrepreneur, generating thousands of views, 5 more interviews and 100+ email inquiries. The founder and ceo of twenty years has been increasingly featured on podcasts, youtube, x, instagram. For example, the mission matters podcast featured universalgiving and our founder and ceo, pamela hawley, on entrepreneurship universalgiving supports small, top-performing ngos in crisis-stricken countries. These ngos significantly impact their communities but are themselves largely unknown. We have more than 200 published organization opportunities on the site and thousands accessible in our database, depending on the crisis or donor request. Our NGO partners work in over 160 countries and territories in the areas of health, education, technology, war prevention, animal rights, poverty alleviation, community and economic development, environmental protection, disaster relief, and more. Universalgiving vets each nonprofit NGO on its website with its quality model, a rigorous 24 stage process. We ensure that our users can give and volunteer with a trusted, quality organization. Universalgiving serves numerous diverse donors and volunteers of all ages, backgrounds, and economic statuses. In sum, we have vetted nearly 22000 ngos for individuals, donors, corporations, corporate employees, employee volunteers, and foundations. As one small example and under high pressure, for one client alone universalgiving facilitated vetting of ngos for nearly $5.1 million in u.s. Dollars; $1.8m australian dollars in small, micro-donations, which we disbursed with thousands of rapid microgrants all over the world. Much of these donations are from small donations of $5-$100. Universalgiving makes giving accessible to people of all ages and incomes. Universalgiving also has a crisis relief fund for donating to crisis events across the globe. Our crisis relief fund is a valuable resource for those wanting to give to local, vetted ngos and small local businesses in times of crisis. Testimonials of our NGO partners include an executive director at american friends of kenya, inc. American friends of kenya has been fortunate to get wonderful volunteers from all over kenya and the world through our connection with universalgiving. To date, we have had nurses, teachers, it specialists, social workers, environmentalists, and even carpenters and electricians who have contacted us as a result of seeing our postings on universalgiving. Now, as kenya tries to recover from the horrible events following the national elections, we will need our volunteers more than ever. Thank you, universalgiving.-emely silver universalgiving corporate pioneered

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: $59.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 66.9%; rating input score 67; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 13.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.45; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings