Mercy Connections Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993988071
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burlington, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8028467063
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,255,333
- Expenses
- $761,257
- Assets
- $1,539,847
- Liabilities
- $13,078
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELL LANGLAIS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LISA FALCONE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- MICHELL LANGLAIS (PRESIDENT)
- FRAN BRIAND (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mercy connections empowers people to make significant life changes through education, mentoring, entrepreneurship, and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mercy connections operates three well-established, robust program areas, which serve 800 people annually. These include: the inclusive entrepreneurship program (iep) is a trailblazer and leader in preparing entrepreneurs to launch and operate their own businesses. The justice and mentoring program (j&m) matches trained women volunteers (mentors) with women involved in the corrections system (mentees) and provides resources, support and social capital to women trying to reclaim their lives after incarceration. Education programs (e&t) offer a portfolio of in-depth education classes, tutoring, support groups and a weekly community lunch for people seeking a safe, welcoming place to work on their goals, sense of purpose, and possibly most importantly, build connections with others. These programs are supported with evidence-based, adult education and social justice practices that meet people where they are and empower them to move forward. We welcome people who are marginalized and often isolated and adhere to the premise that every person, regardless of life circumstances, deserves dignity, compassion and the opportunity to pursue personal aspirations within a supportive community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.3%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 20th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 66.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.3% of revenue deployed · 69.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $527K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.