Connections a Counseling Center Affirming Spirituality & Diversity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463654023
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Fremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5103710244
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,486
- Expenses
- $204,644
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SABEEN SHAIQ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BRUCE WAYNE LOWE MDIVPHD (CLINICIAL DIRECTOR): $48,436 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Opening hearts to healing. Connections is a professional extension of the counseling ministries of the spiritual and faith communities of the tri-cities area of fremont, ca. Because we believe that each person's emotional, mental and spiritual health is closely intertwined, we provide psychotherapy, education and consultation that interate spiritual and psychological perspectives in our healing work.
What it reported doing in 2016
A concentration on building the business infrastructure of connections. Providing the goundwork for when to start directly serving clients. Letting faith communities know that the center would be opening so they could refer their clients.letting city social service organizations know when we could be opening so they could refer clients.speaking to ethnic community groups who are interested in referrals or working with us to extend our programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -81.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $204K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.