Family Connections Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
221865826
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
East Orange, NJ, USA
Phone
9736753817
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,871,999
Expenses
$25,483,403
Assets
$14,596,754
Liabilities
$6,816,585

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JACQUES HRYSHKO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • THELMA VILLAMOR (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $312,497 total reported compensation
  • JACQUES HRYSHKO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $249,348 total reported compensation
  • TRACEY HOOD (CONTROLLER): $202,906 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Growth happens here every day. With our counseling, skills-building, training and prevention services, people take control of their own healing and foster connections that make our entire community stronger, safer, and healthier.

What it reported doing in 2024

Certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) services have allowed us to combine our mental health and substance use services together with basic primary heathcare and other resources to create our integrated behavioral health services (ibhs): these programs include outpatient mental health; bi-lingual clinical services; culturally-competent mental health services for local veterans and their families; wellness house intensive outpatient treatment for people living with serious and persistent mental illness; outpatient substance use programs; medication assisted treatment for substance use disorders and; alcohol and drug abuse prevention. The programs enhance personal and family coping skills, insight, motivation and independence through the provision of individual and family counseling for all ages. The outpatient substance abuse program helps adults achieve and sustain recovery and rebuild their lives through making better choices. Medication assisted treatment uses medications in combination with counseling, to treat opioid use. Our alcohol and drug abuse prevention coalition employs environmental strategies to reduce and prevent underage drinking and drug abuse, including prescription drug abuse. Cultural competency for opioid treatment providers (cc-otp) provides statewide cultural competence training and ongoing support for licensed opioid treatment providers to improve the quality and efficacy of their services to adults with opioid use disorder. "help for heroes" is our statewide peer welness program for peer support specialists working with adults with opioid use disorder. This program provides peer specialists with individual and grup counseling, self-compassion skills, wellness activities, and open peer discussion groups all designed to reduce compassion fatigue and burnout and increase resiliency and wellness.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $31.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $24.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $312K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $440K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.