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UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL

UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $138,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL PURCHASING INC ($138,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$598k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$138k
Net assets
$201k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Universal Public Procurement Certification Council does

Mission

In support of the public trust, our mission is to recognize professionalism in public procurement through the identification of a common body of knowledge and the certification of individuals against established standards of competency.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Certification - uppcc administered the certified public procurement officer and certified professional public buyer certification programs.

    $679,169 spent$583,458 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $679,169.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($438k) Expenses 100 ($474k) Net assets 100 ($499k)2018 Revenue 144 ($632k) Expenses 156 ($740k) Net assets 79 ($392k)2019 Revenue 165 ($723k) Expenses 142 ($674k) Net assets 88 ($441k)2020 Revenue 129 ($564k) Expenses 124 ($589k) Net assets 83 ($416k)2021 Revenue 113 ($493k) Expenses 91 ($434k) Net assets 95 ($475k)2022 Revenue 96 ($422k) Expenses 98 ($463k) Net assets 87 ($434k)2023 Revenue 123 ($538k) Expenses 99 ($468k) Net assets 101 ($504k)2024 Revenue 137 ($598k) Expenses 175 ($829k) Net assets 40 ($201k)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (175)Net assets (40)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $576k to $1.4M (+144%).

$510k
$458k
$465k
$524k
$600k
$558k
$576k
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$36k
’17
−$107k
’18
$49k
’19
−$25k
’20
$59k
’21
−$41k
’22
$70k
’23
−$231k
’24
13
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Derrick Strand

Executive director

Board chair

Kathleen Muretti

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed77797756
Joined·+0+3+2+1+2+2+1
No longer listed·0303240
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $46k.

Funder
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'19
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.

VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL

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In Kentucky

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • National Association of State Procurement Officials · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL?
UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $138,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL PURCHASING INC ($138,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $138,000 in grants to UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL?
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL PURCHASING INC is the largest funder on record, with $138,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATION COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing