Connected Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812278434
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Weems, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8047241917
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,000
- Expenses
- $378,825
- Assets
- $3,507,398
- Liabilities
- $1,598,898
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jesse Crotty (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jesse Crotty (Executive Director): $63,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At The Connected Foundation, we believe that personal stability, professional empowerment, and economic opportunity are deeply interconnected. Our mission is to address the full spectrum of human well-being by delivering programs that meet people where they are and elevate them toward where they want to be. We pursue this mission through three core pillars: 1. Psychological Services for Those Most in Need - Providing accessible, compassionate, and culturally informed mental-health care to underserved and high-risk communities. 2. Mindfulness and Resilience Training for Psychologists and Mental-Health Therapists - Strengthening the well-being, clinical effectiveness, and long-term sustainability of mental-health practitioners through evidence-based, practitioner-centered training. 3. Technical and Financial Literacy Education - Empowering individuals with the knowledge and digital skills necessary for economic independence, including innovative training in decentralized web technology.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Connected Foundation is committed to advancing the skills, well-being, and professional capacity of psychologists and mental-health practitioners through specialized mindfulness and resilience training. Our mission is to provide evidence-based, practitioner-focused programs that strengthen clinical practice, deepen self-awareness, and support sustainable professional resilience. By integrating cutting-edge research with experiential learning and a supportive community of experts, we empower mental-health professionals to better care for themselves, enhance therapeutic outcomes, and lead transformative change within the communities they serve. The Connected Foundation held 4 mindfulness and resilience retreats in 2024, both in the US at our main location, and in Ecuador in our center in Gonzanama. We drastically improved the Ecuador retreat center's accessibility by fixing the roads for the local community and providing electric power to the surround homes. Development continued on our Baywater retreat center in Virginia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -107%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.26; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $208K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.