Utah Water Ways Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932430882
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 3854558805
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $574,102
- Expenses
- $1,464,439
- Assets
- $2,559,307
- Liabilities
- $685,893
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- TAGE FLINT (EXECUTIVE DI): $159,046 total reported compensation
- JILL FLYGARE (TREASURER): $75,813 total reported compensation
- WENDY ROYCE (SECRETARY): $66,926 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.
What it reported doing in 2024
Water conservation uww revitalized and expanded the slow the flow campaign as a statewide platform for water conservation messaging and public engagement. Now serving as a unifying brand for conservation education, slow the flow delivers multichannel outreach through broadcast media, digital platforms, public signage, and city-level campaigns. The campaign provides residents with practical tools and resourcesincluding the plant selector tool, landscape design guides, and seasonal watering recommendationsto make water-smart choices at home and in their communities. Through partnerships with municipalities, water districts, and businesses, slow the flow has amplified conservation messages across diverse audiences.
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 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $58.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -155.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 84.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 88.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -30.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 66.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $971K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.