Utah Community Action Partnership Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870509521
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Layton, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8014333025
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $992,349
- Expenses
- $1,019,511
- Assets
- $174,467
- Liabilities
- $170,675
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CLINT COTTAM (EXECUTIVE DI): $88,107 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization works in partnership with Utah's state community services office, the region 8 performance and innovation consortium, and other national partners to provide training, support, and technical assistance on the community services block grant to the nine community action agencies in Utah. In fy 2025, cap Utah provided over 2,062 hours of training and technical assistance to its network and partners in the state. Cap Utah reached 395 distinct individuals from 45 organizations. Some important trainings occurred such as spdat training, csbg data bootcamps, results oriented management and accountability (roma) trainings performance management seminars, scholarships to attend other national and state trainings, special training seminars, and in-person/virtual consultations. There were 868 total trainings and consultation interactions. Cap Utah assisted each of the 9 community action agencies with needs assessments for their regions - identifying the causes and conditions of poverty and potential solutions for local areas. In follow up surveys, over 80% of t-ta participants have responded that trainings have helped them increase knowledge and skills needed to better perform their jobs. The agency also communicated trainings to the network through: -12 newsletters -84 all-network emails -11 website blogs -72 social media posts the organization continued its diaper distribution demonstration and research project. The organization supported the first paid employee at the Utah diaper bank as part of the project. This employee has increased the reach and long-term capacity to ensure that diapers are distributed statewide past the dddrp project. Additionally, cap Utah worked with four community action agencies and 1 additional diaper agency to pilot a diaper + wrap around services model. Nearly half of participating households reported feeling stressed about affording basic needs and reducing spending on food, medication, and other needs to "make it." this program has helped alleviate financial stress of parents. Community action agencies in this program have also connected families to other resources that address employment, education, and housing and have seen other positive changes as a result of the diaper + wrap around service model.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $949K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.