Senior Connections Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581187876
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2018
Forms available
Form 990 2018
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
7707131226
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Senior Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$932,043
Expenses
$399,491
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHARON STEELE (INTERIM CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHARON STEELE (INTERIM CEO): $2,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide essential home and community-based care that maximizes independence

What it reported doing in 2018

Nutrition services senior connections produced nutritionally-balanced, freshly prepared meals and delivered these meals on wheels program meals were distributed to seniors in their homes, at adult day care sites, senior centers and a charter school delivery destinations included dekalb, fulton, rockdale, and bibb counties senior connections offers a variety of therapeutic menus including diabetic, renal, mechanical soft, low sodium, no seafood and vegetarian and the meals are available for home delivery and at senior centers meals on wheels are delivered in dekalb county via volunteers directly to the seniors' home six days a week

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 73% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 26
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 33.3%; rating input score 33
  • Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 57.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 33.3% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $318K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.