Prevention Connections
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421609865
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Richmond, VA, US
- Phone
- Fax: (804) 225 · 2272
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Smoking Addiction
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,185
- Expenses
- $193,383
- Assets
- $144,484
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- Michael Parsons (Chair)
- Daniel Saggese (Vice Chair)
- Heidi Hertz (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to support youth tobacco and nicotine use prevention, substance use prevention, and childhood obesity prevention across Virginia.
What it reported doing in 2024
Light of Hope Alliance Partnered with the City of Manassas to distribute over 100 Park Packs with sports equipment and program flyers Provided transportation so children from three underserved neighborhoods could access activities like hiking museums and sports at low cost
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.1%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 29.5%; rating input score 29
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 31.1% of revenue deployed · 29.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.