Connecting for Children & Families
Legal name: Connecting for Children and Families Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050475365
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Woonsocket, RI, United States
- Phone
- (401) 766-3384
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,414,971
- Expenses
- $4,346,255
- Assets
- $2,116,847
- Liabilities
- $161,623
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA CARCIFERO (PRESIDENT)
- ERICKA MOORE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- ERIN SPAULDING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN SPAULDING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $152,000 total reported compensation
- DANIEL QUINN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $61,123 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 mission of Connecting for Children and Families is to serve Woonsocket and Northern Rhode Island by providing family-centered programs and educational opportunities that empower children, families, and individuals to thrive and succeed. connecting-for-children-and-familes-programs-editorial-233.jpg The mission of **Connecting for Children and Families** is to serve Woonsocket and Northern Rhode Island by providing family-centered programs and educational opportunities that empower children, families, and individuals to thrive and succeed. Founded on the same guiding principles, each COZ Site leads the design of services to meet the needs of its school-based community encompassing the following areas: children's learning environments, physical and mental health, economic opportunity, and family support and engagement. Our statewide Full-Service Community School Initiative has...
What it reported doing in 2024
Family support: ccf's front street family center is the hub of our family support work. Our community health workers (chws) and our parents as teachers, parent educators partner with families to build positive parenting skills, set goals focused on the social determinants of health and provide essential services. Services include food, clothing and basic needs, rental, utility and transportation assistance, assistance in navigating immigration and other legal matters as well as support with state benefits they may be eligible for. The front street family center also houses our marketplace, where families "shop" for food and hygiene products; and our successwear boutique which is available for any individual looking to get back into the workforce and is in need of appropriate interview clothing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $55.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 22 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.