Phoenix Communities Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812629388
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 5087233873
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $450,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bakari Stepherson (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Bakari Stepherson (CEO)
- Tahira Stepherson (Chief Operations Officer)
- Harold Stepherson (Chief Legal Officer)
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 organization was established to address housing insecurity and housing instability within Hartford's low- and moderate-income communities. In alignment with the City of Hartford Consolidated Plan and HUD priorities under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, we support programs that serve homeless individuals, those at risk of homelessness, and income-eligible households seeking affordable rental housing or pathways to homeownership. Our work advances community development goals by increasing housing access, strengthening neighborhood stability, and supporting vulnerable residents in achieving safe, permanent housing in the best interest of the City of Hartford.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our organization has extensive experience working with individuals and families experiencing homelessness and those at imminent risk of housing loss, with a particular focus on Veterans. As a Veteran who has personally experienced temporary homelessness and successfully transitioned to stable housing, our leadership brings both lived experience and professional expertise to program design and service delivery. This perspective informs a trauma-informed, housing-first approach that prioritizes rapid stabilization, dignity, and long-term self-sufficiency. Over the past 15 years, organizational leadership has operated and managed residential properties, including transitional housing environments serving vulnerable populations. Through these operations, we have coordinated closely with community providers, landlords, workforce partners, and local housing systems to quickly identify safe housing placements and remove barriers to tenancy. Our established landlord network significantly increases access to units for Veterans with prior evictions, poor credit, or justice involvement. We have experience assisting Veterans in accessing entitlement benefits, employment services, transportation, and community-based behavioral health supports. We coordinate directly with VA medical center staff, including homeless program personnel, to facilitate continuity of care and ensure rapid linkage to medical and mental health services. Our approach incorporates housing stability planning, income maximization, and structured case management with measurable outcomes tied to permanent housing retention.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.