Family Connection Communities in Schools of Athens Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582204209
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Athens, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7063699732
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,441,552
- Expenses
- $2,124,629
- Assets
- $774,127
- Liabilities
- $45,834
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keri Massey (President)
- Alice Kinman (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Erin Thompson Podvin (Executive Dir.): $53,204 total reported compensation
- Faatimah Stevens (Foundation Mgr.): $42,022 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 create a quality of life in the community which supports and encourages the development of all families and children and facilitates the eductional, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, physical, and economic growth of all individuals. To surround students with a community fo support, empowering them to stay in school and sachieve in life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program services focus on improving child and family well-being in five areas: healthy children, children ready to start school, children succeeding in school, stable self-sufficient famililies and strong communities. These programs work to ensure that every child needs and deserves a one-on-one relationship with a caring adjult, a safe place to learn and grow, a healthy start and healthy future, a marketable skill to use upon graduation, and a chance to give back to peers and community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.