Special Connections
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200374573
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kenner, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5044946185
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,099
- Expenses
- $113,526
- Assets
- $149,331
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Pisciotta (President)
- Marie H Evans (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Susan Pisciotta (President)
- Marie H Evans (Vice President)
- Vicki Lee (Treasurer)
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
Special Connections aims to create a safe and stimulating environment that addresses the unique challenges of our Members. The Program fosters peer social interaction, skill growth, recreational activities, and appropriate community engagement. It also provides respite for Parents/Guardians of adult children living at home.
What it reported doing in 2025
We provided a social day care program for 22-26 special needs adults for 175 days in 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.