Community Connections
Legal name: Community Connections Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521349382
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- Phone
- +1 (202) 546-1512
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community Mental Health Center
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,315,342
- Expenses
- $34,731,252
- Assets
- $27,331,516
- Liabilities
- $8,933,960
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAXINE HARRIS PHD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- DAMIEN CABEZAS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MAXINE HARRIS PHD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $832,063 total reported compensation
- LUCAS KEMPF (PSYCHIATRIST): $257,896 total reported compensation
- MARION SCOTCHMER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $204,131 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide behavioral health, supportive housing, homeless outreach, and integrated health care coordination for marginalized and disenfranchised individuals living in the District of Columbia.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public housing authority - community connections is a u.s. Department of housing and urban development (hud)-approved housing authority lookalike and administers housing subsidies funded by federal and local rental assistance programs. These subsidies support individuals with low incomes, serious mental illness, and complex life experiences including homelessness, trauma, addiction, and chronic health conditions. We manage supportive housing programs that combine rental assistance with housing counseling and supportive services to promote long-term housing stability. We also work closely with development partners and city agencies to preserve and expand affordable housing through the d.c. Department of housing and community development creating new units for those most in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $370.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $27.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $832K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.2M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.