Communities In Cooperation Inc.
Legal name: Communities in Cooperation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810659032
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Newark, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 9735585378
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,253,827
- Expenses
- $1,241,336
- Assets
- $552,895
- Liabilities
- $248,098
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pamela Jones (CEO and Director)
- Felicia Vaughn-Timley (President and Director)
- Henry Scott (Vice President and Directo)
Highest reported compensation
- Pamela Jones (CEO and Director): $90,685 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Communities In Cooperation's service efforts are based on the Human Services Model. Human Services:** Our trauma-informed, care-trained staff provides empowerment services to youth for their resiliency, the justice-involved, the unemployed and underemployed, underserved populations, and fragile families. Our priority is being nonjudgmental and culturally competent, with an emphasis on maintaining the dignity of those serviced. Through case management, needs are accessed to increase one's well-being and to create opportunity and equity that builds and strengthens communities. We use technology and best practices to ameliorate problems geared towards improving one’s quality of life. We work co.
What it reported doing in 2023
In 2023, Communities In Cooperation (CIC) advanced women's reentry, youth development, and family support services across New Jersey. We served over 100 women annually with reentry support, maintaining a recidivism rate below 10%, and facilitating meaningful reunifications between mothers and their children. In Union County, we provided life coaching to 100 at-risk youth, with no juvenile justice involvement, and served 30 justice-involved youth with similarly low recidivism. Our foster care teen program equipped 40 youth annually with life and job readiness skills. CIC programs are evidence-based and focus on building resilience, life skills, and positive relationships for long-term success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 89% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $62.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.