Connecticut Quest for Peace Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264439286
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Georgetown, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034380215
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,955
- Expenses
- $225,992
- Assets
- $184,680
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL EVANS (PRESIDENT)
- MAUREEN SHANLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BILL EVANS (PRESIDENT)
- MAUREEN SHANLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CAROL FERRARO (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the lives of the poor and marginalized throughout the world, with a focus on the poor of the americas, by providing humanitarian aid through a variety of programs focusing on nutrition, education, healthcare, the arts, and microfinance.
What it reported doing in 2025
We provide school supplies and lunch programs to support children's education and feeding programs in nicaragua at schools in managua, nueva guinea, granada and somotillo. Our initiative sustains the nutrition program for 315 children at los cocos school in granada and the 1400 students at enrique del osso school in reparto schick, a poor barrio in managua. Additionally we are involved with sagrado corazon, a k-11 school for 1200 students and hogar alegria, an orphanage for 35 girls in granada. Lastly we support 19 high school and college students in leon through a scholarship program which enables them to further their education. We are proud to say that we have a number of university graduates.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 98% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -44.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $223K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.