Connect Inc
Overview
Mission
Connect is dedicated to the prevention and elimination of family and gender violence and to the creation of safe families and peaceful communities.connect transforms the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that perpetuate gender and family violence and addresses these complex issues through prevention, early intervention services and community empowerment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community empowerment program (cep): connect recognizes the vital role of community involvement in preventing and ending interpersonal violence. As part of its comprehensive approach to eliminating family violence, connect established the community empowerment program (cep) to help local organizations across New York city respond to the needs of victims and survivors in their own communities. Connect has engaged almost 200 community partners in their efforts to eliminate interpersonal violence. Since the heights of covid in nyc 2019-2022, and its impact on individuals, families and communities throughout nyc, increasing the cases of intimate partner violence, changing the ways advocates and organizations can support survivor's safety due to quarantining and work from home, potentially increasing the access of abusive partners to the person(s) they are harming. To address these issues, connect pivoted and expanded its reach to online via zoom and other remote platforms. Subsequently we're pivoting back, using a hybrid model, that incorporates the successes and innovation from this period to a hybrid model, that allows to maintain our reach and meet the needs of our community partners with in-person services and still be protective and recognizes covid and other emerging health issues are serious and still impacting certain communities and populations that we serve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020694269
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126830015
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $858K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $170K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- QUENTIN WALCOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $169,608 total reported compensation
- RHONDA E OTTEN (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $146,995 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.