Community Connections for Children
Legal name: Community Connections for Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222842846
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178542273
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,705,976
- Expenses
- $113,359,869
- Assets
- $32,074,496
- Liabilities
- $17,649,895
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD HOLBERG (PAST PRESIDENT)
- BAKHTAVAR MODY WYKPISZ (PRESIDENT)
- JILL UREY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTY RENJILIAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTY RENJILIAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $170,748 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community Connections for Children (CCC) connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life. and Vision of CCC Mission Statement CCC connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life. CCC connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life. Vision Statement. _Accountability:_** We hold ourselves and each other accountable to our staff, families, funders, and partners. _Excellence:_** We expect the highest quality, most innovative work from ourselves and our partners. _Impact:_** Our success is measured by the...
What it reported doing in 2024
Early learning resource center (elrc) administers the child care works and keystone stars programs: ccc administers this department of human services funded program to (a) assist low income families living in adams, cumberland, dauphin, lancaster, lebanon, perry and york counties with the cost of childcare and (b) assist families, regardless of income, in understanding Pennsylvania's early education system and in locating and evaluating appropriate early childhood education and school age child care programs for their children and (c) implement keystone stars by providing information, coaching, mentoring, and workshops, assist with the self-study process, and designating providers with a star level by determining they have met the standards. (d) administer grant funds.at the close of the fiscal year, services included:1. 11,042 children for child care works funding2. 6,786 families participate in child care works3. 1,144 of providers participating in child care works4. 3,424 families asked for childcare referrals5. 5,629 calls to the helpline6. 928 keystone stars providers7. 66 providers moved up one or more star levels8. 54 new star 1 providers9. 2,092 professionals impacted.10. Continuing quality improvement (cqi) grant awardsa. $260,000 paid to 62 programs in region 8b. $612,500 paid to 152 programs in region 9c. $691,500 paid to 185 programs in region 1011. Pdg grant awardsa. $320,000 paid to 7 programs in region 8b. $888,000 paid to 22 programs in region 9c. $998,500 paid to 20 programs in region 10
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,033.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 77th 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: 7.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $111.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.