Community Vocational Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050457178
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Waterford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8604390600
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sheltered Employment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,334,305
- Expenses
- $2,348,749
- Assets
- $1,123,547
- Liabilities
- $722,514
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHERINE WILHELM (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELE WALSH (FINANCE/EXEC): $92,749 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 vocational services, inc. Provides opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities by providing supported employment services and other community involvement activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Individual day; non-vocational and vocational: this service focuses on community as well as home based supports in order to allow for growth in interpersonal skills, self care skills, community access, and one on one or small group activities all designed with a high attention to independence, community integration and independence even though paid employment is not necessarily the goal. A total of 18 clients benefitted from this program. Senior supports: senior supports are provided for older individuals, or individuals who have needs that closely resemble those of an older person, who desire a lifestyle consistent with that of the community's population of similar age or circumstances. This support is intended to facilitate independence and promote community inclusion as well as prevent isolation. Senior supports consist of a variety of activities that are designed to assist the individual in maintaining skills and stimulating social interactions with others. Services may be in the community or the home. A total of 3 clients benefitted from this program. Individual home supports (ihs): ihs focuses on providing assistance to individuals with intellectual disability who live on their own or with their families. A total of 5 clients benefitted from this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.