Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061184674
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New Haven, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8605710093
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,331,653
- Expenses
- $2,767,021
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRENDAN BIGGINS (INTERIM PRES): $201,150 total reported compensation
- RACHEL ANASTASIO (DIRECTOR OF): $158,755 total reported compensation
- CYNTHIA O'NEILL: $140,691 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 council serves as the backbone of the network for several collaborative programs, providing administrative and programmatic oversight, developing and maintaining contractual relationships, and providing performance management & quality improvement. The council serves as a statewide provider network for multiple programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Screening Connecticut's youth or scy is a free behavioral health screening program available to children ages 4 to 17 statewide. The scy program serves all youth, but particularly those in underserved, urban communities who are impacted by health disparities and structural racism, as well as those in rural areas where availability and accessibility are obstacles. Scy conducts community outreach to raise awareness of mental health issues, reduce stigma, and proactively screen youth for mental health and trauma symptoms. If a child is in need of services, a community health worker helps them obtain a behavioral health intake and addresses the social determinants of health or obstacles that might impede their access to services."
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 45.1%; rating input score 45
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -107.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 45.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $201K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.