Southeastern Regional Action Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061308487
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Norwich, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8608482800
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,030,416
- Expenses
- $1,558,860
- Assets
- $1,791,138
- Liabilities
- $1,016,506
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MARK IRONS STARTED SEPT 4 (EXECUTIVE DI): $84,781 total reported compensation
- ANGELA DUHAIME (EXECUTIVE DI): $77,207 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to engage with the communities of eastern Connecticut to implement proven practices that reduce the impact of behavioral health challenges across the lifespan. This is achieved through collaboration, needs assessment, capacity building, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
1. Regional behavioral health action organization (rbhao): one of serac's key roles as the rbhao in region 3 is to maximize resources and improve integration related to mental health and substance use program planning, training, advocacy, and resource development. Some key functions through this initiative include assessing the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and adults across the regions. Developing regional strategic plans to include priority recommendations for prevention, treatment, and recovery services. Administering the local prevention council (lpc) grants to municipalities to stimulate the development and implementation of prevention activities. Building the capacity of local communities to understand and address problem gambling. Raising awareness and providing advocacy to the general public related to mental health promotion and substance use prevention, treatment and recovery. Leveraging funds to support prevention, treatment, and recovery activities across each region. Maintain the statutory requirements for meetings and membership for the organization. Serving on local, regional, and statewide advisory and planning bodies. Providing naloxone (narcan)training and kit distribution to communities. Problem gambling in march 2018, serac was awarded a sixyear problem gambling grant fromdmhas to build the capacity of local communities to increase awareness to address and reduce the impact of problem gambling on individuals and families by building and strengthening a gambling awareness strategic planning committee names regional gambling awareness team. 2.state opioid response initiative/ recovery friendly workplace: serac community mini grant opportunity in eastern ct with support from the ct department of mental health and additional services and federal substance abuse and mental health services administration. Ct state opioid response initiativecommunity mini grants will provide communities with funding to build their capacity to develop and/or enhance local opioid addiction and overdose prevention and response efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.