Universities Council on Water Resources Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470617822
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Carbondale, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6185367571
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $348,454
- Expenses
- $289,542
- Assets
- $332,950
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LUCAS GREGORY (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- JERRY KAUFFMAN (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY PETERSON (PRESIDENT)
- BRIDGET GUERRERO (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JACQUELINE CRIM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JACQUELINE CRIM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $35,613 total reported compensation
- MELISSA MAY (OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR): $23,203 total reported compensation
- KRISTY BENDER (OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR): $19,630 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote water resources research.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publish educational journals, 3 or 4 annually. Current subscribers: 300+ purpose: research and education, water resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 42.3%; rating input score 42
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 42.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.