Compass Connections
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461394166
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, United States
- Phone
- 210-674-3010
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $448,681,852
- Expenses
- $450,035,756
- Assets
- $36,440,567
- Liabilities
- $41,190,253
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sonya Thompson (President)
- Andrew Carter Jr (Deputy Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Kevin Dinnin (Chairman of the Board): $1,826,428 total reported compensation
- Claudia Oliveira (Treasurer): $499,412 total reported compensation
- Asennet Segura (Director): $396,810 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Guided by Compassion. Our mission is to meet the needs of the community9 most vulnerable children and their caregivers. Patient-centered medical support coordinates medical care across all levels of the healthcare system, such as specialty care, hospitals, home health and community services. Our Medical Providers excel at the management of acute and chronic diseases, well-child visits and sports physicals. Epidemiology Our epidemiologist team consists of public health experts focused on disease mitigation and contact tracing in congregate care and community settings.
What it reported doing in 2024
Post release facilitates a continuum of care and provides support for children transitioning into their new communities. Children released from the care and custody of the office of refugee and resettlement into the community need physical and emotional safety; access to services and support that meets their individual needs and allows them to cultivate and preserve family and community relationships; and protection from abuse, abandonment, neglect, and other harm. Total served 4,001.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 63.6%; rating input score 64; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.13; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 59.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 45.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $400.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.8M · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.