Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471963520
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Wynnewood, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2152802758
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,173
- Expenses
- $136,103
- Assets
- $27,293
- Liabilities
- $401
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sherrie Eisman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sara Crimm (Executive Dir.)
- Allan Crimm (Chairman)
- Caryn Becker (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Families Creating Communities for Adults with Special Needs, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization supporting individuals with disabilities ages 16+ and their families. Families CCAN empowers individuals of all abilities and their families to create self-directed, fulfilling lives in the community. Our work is guided by people with disabilities and the understanding that independence is different for each person. We provide learning opportunities, personalized support, and inclusive programs that create community, build social connections, and open doors to housing, employment, and civic life. We advance the strengths, goals and rights of all individuals to participate fully and meaningfully in their community.
What it reported doing in 2024
COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFERED FREE OF CHARGEWe sponsor free Monthly Resource meetings on a virtual platform. We hosted a total of 11 meetings in FY2025 on topics such as: Financial Planning Basics, Busting Housing Myths, Health and Wellness, Transition from High School. Average attendance is 35 families, individuals and service providers/professionals. We often feature individuals with disabilities teaching from lived experience.We offer a popular free cooking program called Families CCAN Cook. We have now hosted over 140 sessions of this virtual instructor-led cooking session designed to help individuals with disabilities learn cooking skills and make dinner in 1 hour. Participants join from their own kitchens and learn how to measure, cut, chop, use utensils and kitchen tools, and some nutrition basics. This program draws participants from across the state of Pennsylvania. Weekly attendance has grown to an average of 14 participants per session.For the 3rd year we have hosted quarterly, in-person Meet-ups for individuals and families living in and adjacent to Delaware County, Pennsylvania. These free gatherings promote connections, relationship-building and resource-sharing in a more localized way.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.8% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.