Interlocking Communities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113655131
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sugar Hill, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4045431959
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,641
- Expenses
- $47,836
- Assets
- $119,651
- Liabilities
- $1,336
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARI SIMMONS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHARI SIMMONS (PRESIDENT)
- LOUISE RADLOFF (EXECUTIVE DI)
- KATHLEEN MARKS (SEC/TREASURE)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of interlocking communities, inc.(ici) is to address issues arising from poverty and lack of job skills for non-english speaking residents in gwinnett county. The programs offered by ici are educational and target high risk, school age children and their families.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 our english language learner classes serve an average of 25 to 30 adult students per sunday for approximately 30 sundays per year. We serve a meal each sunday to our students and teachers. We partnered with a local chicken rancher who donates eggs weekly - frequently up to 30 dozen - to our students. We partner with whole foods which donates 'day old' foods which we pick up and provide to our students. On occasion, we partner with viewpoint mental health to provide assistance to any students in need. In 2025 our ready by five program enrolled 213 families in gwinnett county and served 489 parents and their children (ranging in age from birth to 8 years old) in our 8 week program. Parents and children learned how to play interactively and teach each other interactively. They learned the importance of reading and learning, and that learning can begin right from birth. We partnered with: gwinnett county public schools which provided space for the program as well as materials and guidance when needed, gwinnett county public library which provided readers and free books to children be active gwinnett which brought in numerous physical games for the children to play and learn on gwinnett building babies brains which provided some volunteers and free materials for families b2 anywhere which provided volunteers and recreational resources lou service dog which provided a volunteer with a dog to teach children about animals and therapy corners outreach which provided volunteers and constructive toys
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -310.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.5; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.