Connecticut Worker Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834260663
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bridgeport, CT, USA
Phone
2036124367
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$237,703
Expenses
$249,310
Assets
$24,773
Liabilities
$32,349

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAVIER CHACON (PRESIDENT)
  • BYRON LUCERO (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • NELLI JARA (EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $55,101 total reported compensation
  • SILVIA SALINAS (WORKERS RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY ADVOC): $44,850 total reported compensation
  • FLORECIENDA MONTENEGRO (OUTREACH COORDINATOR): $20,700 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Connecticut worker center is a grassroots community worker center, whose mission is to support immigrants, both men and women, on issues of workplace and immigrants rights. Through organizing, advocacy, leadership training, capacity building, civic participation

What it reported doing in 2024

Through this fund we covered personnel cost including our worker leaders and volunteers who are educating and informing our community and immigrant workers to defend their rights. Through education and advocacy, our members learned how to fight together and realized that they deserve the same respect, safety and dignity in their workplaces as any other job in this country. Through our center and worker leaders, members have also learned how to find the resources they have available depending on their urgent needs. Connecticut worker center staff, worker leaders, volunteers and members have been able to access education and training. Through training we are developing leaders in the movement to gain labor rights for domestic workers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.2%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.31; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.2% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $224K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.