Open Connections Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232069406
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Newtown Square, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104593366
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $901,175
- Expenses
- $1,156,259
- Assets
- $5,712,677
- Liabilities
- $414,888
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- RICK SLEUTARIS JR (CO-DIRECTOR): $148,559 total reported compensation
- SARAH BECKER (CO-DIRECTOR): $93,903 total reported compensation
- LISA HUIS (BOARD MEMBER): $1,720 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Open connections' mission is empower people to create the life they want, full of purpose and fulfillment. We do this by offering programs that develop and nurture healthy connections with self, others, and learning. When people leave open connections, we hope that they are knowledgeable and confident in who they are; able to communicate their needs and wishes, and hear the needs and wishes of others, in a respectful and effective way; and prepared to tackle life's challenges and opportunities using both creative and critical thinking skills. Their services include full-day programs, community events, parent workshops, educational counseling, and home education services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Empowering people to create the life they want, full of purpose and fulfillment by offering programs and services that provide opportunities to develop and nurture healthy connections with self, others, and learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.94; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $865K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.