Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222529245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-PF 2022
- Location
- West Hartfrod, CT, USA
- Phone
- 9592822671
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,783,135
- Expenses
- $1,503,483
- Assets
- $1,021,005
- Liabilities
- $367,862
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TINA LAMORTE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DIANA GOODE (EXECUTIVE DI): $196,980 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Connecticut council on problem gambling, inc. (the council/ccpg) is a non- profit organization dedicated to reducing gambling related harm and helping those who may be negatively impacted by gambling. Ccpg provides connecticuts only 24-hour problem gambling helpline, offering support via phone, live online chat, and text. The council also implements prevention and education programs serving youth, veterans, and other special populations. Ccpg does not advocate for or against gambling, but is committed to working with all stakeholders to help individuals and families dealing with this issue.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ccpg provides connecticuts only 24-hour problem gambling helpline, offering support via phone, live online chat, and text. We also implement prevention and education programs serving youth, veterans, and other special populations. The council also provides advocacy and outreach services as well as facilitating conferences and events related to its mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $878.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: 98.2%; rating input score 98; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 15.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $197K · 12 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.