Positive Connection Initiative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
995104412
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bedford, NY, USA
Phone
9145526152
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$32,487
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$32,487

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WILLIAM GRONER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • WILLIAM GRONER (PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID JAFFE (TREASURER)
  • ERIN MCLOUGHLIN (SECRETARY)

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

Teaching, advocating, and investigating the role of positive connection in fostering human flourishing and prosocial behavior to develop a growing understanding of how positive relationships contribute to success and well-being.

What it reported doing in 2024

College civil dialogue workshops: creating and facilitating workshops to teach students skills such as active constructive responding and curious inquiry to enhance person to person connection through constructive dialogue. In addition to student workshops, workshops will be given to staff, administrators, and faculty. The organization will develop workshops that faculty can provide to students, create a "train the trainer" program for prospective facilitators and expand workshop content to include common ground, compromise, mediation, and other related areas. High school civil dialogue workshops: working with high schools, creating workshops for students and teachers to promote healthy, respectful dialogue behaviors, classroom engagement, and other related behaviors. Research content areas and best practices for workshop interventions: researching and analyzing the science of human connection and civil dialogue, researching and analyzing best practices developed by researchers and institutions that provide relevant curricula, training, and interventions. Compile and disseminate information on connection benefits: to disseminate the science of the benefits of connection and the available workshop options to further the outreach of our work.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.