Community Connections Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010582284
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Phone
7704659644
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Foster Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,224,815
Expenses
$4,128,055
Assets
$2,074,280
Liabilities
$701,641

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMY GLOVER (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMBER MCCORKLE (Exectutive Dir.): $124,143 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Community Connections is to support Georgias children in foster care by providing comprehensive services and transformative partnerships with families and the larger community.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Community Connections, Inc. served 97 children in foster care in the custody of the Division of Family and Children Services. As a child placing agency, additional supportive services to foster parents include: 24 hour on-call professional support, crisis intervention services, and respite services. Annual events, including a BBQ and Holiday Party, are held to honor and appreciate foster parents.Community Connections Inc. provides a variety of ongoing training opportunities for foster parents throughout the year including topics related to behavior management and serving children with medically fragile needs or developmental delays. Community Connections, Inc. offers a free shopping opportunity for Community Connections foster parents called The Closet Connection. New and gently used donations of clothes, shoes, toys, books and supplies are solicited to provide free of charge to foster parents for the benefit of children in foster care ages 0-12 years old. All donors are provided with a tax-deductible receipt for their donations. Any items that are not provided to children served in the Community Connections, Inc. foster care program are given to other local non-profit agencies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - 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: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.