DACS Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871372198
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- East Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8607780076
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,474,170
- Expenses
- $1,179,941
- Assets
- $553,370
- Liabilities
- $74,216
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Correndis Dawson-Bonner (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Correndis Dawson-Bonner (Executive Director): $104,227 total reported compensation
- Dominique Pierce (Assistant Director): $70,508 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The DACS Foundation is an innovative service organization dedicated to supporting adults with developmental disabilities. We educate and train young adults with disabilities, their families and staff on the latest technologies. We encourge all individuals to share their stories.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 our agency experienced significant growth, expanding our services from solely supporting individuals in their homes and communities to launching a new day program at a facility we secured. Our capacity increased from 22 individuals to 40 . Our partnership with Oakwood Sports Recreational Center helped us created both employment and recreational opportunities, and to launch a day camp for youths between 13 to 18. Our adminstrative team also expanded from three members to five, including a nurse. We also plan on adding a behavior specialist once approved by DDS. We introduced new services, including healthcare coordination, and our staff became certified as AID investigators. We undertook several credentialing processes to enhance our expertise in providing employment and training and support for the individuals we serve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 20%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $891K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.