Utah Neighborhood Connection

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853705519
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Ogden, UT, USA
Phone
8016758547
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$243,746
Expenses
$202,180
Assets
$135,989
Liabilities
$29,784

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRAD SWEET (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • MEGHAN SHAW KELLY (SITE DIRECTOR): $49,231 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To Love & Empower our NeighborWe create a safe environment for community engagement where everyone is valued.We provide resources & equip our community for short and long term success.We encourage our local youth to express themselves interpersonally, academically, and artistically.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Utah Neighborhood Connection continued expanding its impact and deepening support for local families and youth. Over the year, we hosted 14 free grocery events, serving approximately 1,500 families with essential food resources. We also began installation of a dedicated food pantry inside our facility, building long-term infrastructure to provide consistent, accessible food support to the community.Our youth programming remained a core focus, with 61 students enrolled across our after-school and summer programs, providing safe, creative, and supportive learning environments. We strengthened relationships with families through three family engagement events designed to connect families with resources and with one another.During the holiday season, our community came together to ensure children felt celebrated and supported, with 52 kids sponsored for Christmas through our giving program.Together, these efforts reflect a year of meaningful growth, practical service, and strong community partnership.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 14
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 9.9%; rating input score 10
  • Program expense ratio: 12%; rating input score 12
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 38.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 53.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 9.9% of revenue deployed · 12% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.