Organizations Filed Purposes:
United Way of Mahaska County empowers our communities by promoting education, encouraging healthy living, and strengthening financial stability.
Community Investment (Allocations): Occurs each February. After our annual campaign, a group of community volunteers come together to allocate campaign dollars to social service agencies that serve Mahaska County. Local agencies submit grant applications and make presentations outlining the programs they would like funded. In 2020, United Way of Mahaska County funded 14 local agencies. These agencies focus their efforts on addressing education, income, health, and basic needs throughout Mahaska County.
COVID Relief: With the arrival of the pandemic, United Way of Mahaska County began receiving donations designated to COVID Relief efforts. Initially, grants were awarded to three partner agencies for their programs. Upon receipt of a large donation through United Ways of Iowa, United Way began reaching out to local school districts to see what needs they had as they returned to in-person learning. Some of the expenses covered included purchase of facemasks for students and teachers, along with lanyards to be used with them; parking hang-tags to facilitate student drop-off and pick-up; Internet hot spots for 12 high school students that needed to utilize online learning but did not have internet access in their homes; disinfecting/cleaning solutions for multiple school buildings; and a Social Emotional Learning Program (Can Do U) at Oskaloosa High School to help address student needs in coping with the emotional impact of the pandemic. Funding not expended has been earmarked for use for COVID related needs in 2021 as the pandemic continues.
Oskaloosa Summer Lunch Program: In 2020, United Way of Mahaska County transitioned from being Fiscal Agent and Sponsor of the Oskaloosa Summer Lunch Program to partnering with the Oskaloosa Community School District (OCSD). OSCD now provides meal planning and preparation and United Way recruits and coordinates volunteers needed for the Program. OCSD also became fiscal agent and expenses reflected here include transfer of funding to the school system. This is a USDA funded summer food service program. Due to COVID, the program transitioned to a Pick-Up service, with 5 days of breakfasts and lunches picked up on Wednesdays over the lunch hour. In Summer 2020, more than 6,500 weekly meal bags (65,000 individual meals) were distributed at 7 locations throughout Oskaloosa and Mahaska County.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Michella Friesen | Executive Director | 40 | $40,975 |
| Julie Hyland | Accountant | 24 | $18,937 |
| Dan Gillette | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Maria Destefano | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Angella Gambell | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Roger Beane | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Amy Simmons | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Malea Trainer | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Eric Palmer | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Karla Christensen | Member at Large | 0 | $0 |
| Dan Adams | Past President | 0 | $0 |
| Larry Anderson | Treasurer | 0 | $0 |
| Courtney Perreault | Secretary | 0 | $0 |
| Nik Rule | Vice President | 0 | $0 |
| Ryan Colter | President | 0 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202111339349305206_public.xml