Global Connections to Employment
Legal name: Global Connections to Employment Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472592811
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Pensacola, FL, United States
- Phone
- 850-469-3729 (Human Resources for LifeView Group)
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,814,250
- Expenses
- $128,432,241
- Assets
- $72,367,705
- Liabilities
- $19,889,837
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARTHUR DWIGHT DAVIS JR (VICE PRESIDENT/GCE PRESIDENT)
- ERIC BARLEY (VICE PRESIDENT/CFO)
- M ALLISON HILL (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- SANDRA WHITAKER (VICE PRESIDENT/CDO)
Highest reported compensation
- M ALLISON HILL (PRESIDENT/CEO): $682,193 total reported compensation
- ARTHUR DWIGHT DAVIS JR (VICE PRESIDENT/GCE PRESIDENT): $401,502 total reported compensation
- ERIC BARLEY (VICE PRESIDENT/CFO): $369,048 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
GCE is an affiliate of LifeView Group, a nonprofit family of companies with the mission of “helping people.” Our team serves others through some of their most vulnerable moments, providing behavioral health care, child protective services and career opportunities for people with disabilities. LifeView Group and our three affiliates are non-profit 501c3 organizations, operating with support from our community, our valued partners, as well as legislative funding.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide job training and employment opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities (1,710 employed, 103 of which were veterans). The primary service lines are information technology services, food services (23,000 meals daily), custodial services (19m sq ft cleaned), contact center support (371,495 calls managed) and business services (291,183 pieces of mail processed at our official mail centers). We exist to provide opportunities so people can experience meaningful employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $682K · 16 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $15.8M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.