Circle of Friends of Connecticut
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474152491
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Norwalk, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2032938837
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,452
- Expenses
- $150,657
- Assets
- $191,814
- Liabilities
- $196,831
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FREIDA HECHT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FREIDA HECHT (PRESIDENT)
- MEIR DEITSCH (DIRECTOR)
- CHANIE STONE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.8%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 40%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.03; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.8% of revenue deployed · 40% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.