Connecticut Tourism Coalition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811507947
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Old Saybrook, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034102882
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,917
- Expenses
- $63,991
- Assets
- $15,637
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL MAYER (President)
- CHRISTOPHER REGAN (Vice President)
- DAVID QUINN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MERI WICK (Director)
- MICHAEL O'CONNOR (Director)
- ALEX PETERSON (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Connecticut tourism coalition is comprised of various association and industry-supporting organizations whose main goal is to affect change in the Connecticut tourism industry by addressing key legislative, regulatory and budgeting issues through public education and advocacy for a sustainable source of funding for marketing and promoting Connecticut tourism.
What it reported doing in 2025
First accomplishment: the Connecticut tourism coalition expanded its alliance by adding the Connecticut lodging association and the Connecticut sports and convention bureau along with the Connecticut arts alliance and Connecticut humanities to obtain additional funding for Connecticut arts, culture, and tourism. To that end we worked closely with the chairs of the finance and appropriations committee and met with the speaker, senate president, and majority leader in the senate to obtain their support for taking 10% of the 1% of the meal tax to provide additional funding to the three sectors. We will continue those efforts in the 2026 legislative session.second accomplishment: we continue to work with conn. Humanities, and the american 250th commission to obtain state funding for the countrys 250th birthday this july to market and promote the countrys birthday and connecticuts contributions in establishing this country.third accomplishment: we continue to promote our chat program (Connecticut hospitality awareness program) through our members, which is a 90-minute on-line certification program that teaches the basics of good customer relations. It is currently used as part of the curriculum at gateway community college and as part of orientation or new employee training by companies and organizations in conn.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.