Easter Seals Connecticut Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060653197
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8602422274
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitative Medical Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,403,824
- Expenses
- $1,053,400
- Assets
- $23,388,137
- Liabilities
- $7,456,265
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARRY M SIMON (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- BARRY M SIMON (PRESIDENT &): $388,947 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE D LEIBY (TREASURER &): $265,273 total reported compensation
- GAYLE WINTJEN (SECRETARY &): $217,642 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, play and act in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Oak hill camps and recreations: the hemlocks center is a camp and recreation facility for adolescents and adults with disabilities. Using a barrier free design, the hemlocks center maximizes independence for all program participants. The facility is approximately 50,000 sq/ft, with large meetings rooms, dining room capacity for 150, overnight accommodations for 100, a fully handicap accessible 60' x 40' indoor pool, an open air pavilion, and three lodges. There is also a 22 acre lake on the property which is used for boating and fishing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 63% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.2%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.2; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.2% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $957K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $389K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.