Special Olympics Connecticut Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237099756
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hamden, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2032301201
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,841,843
- Expenses
- $7,556,093
- Assets
- $17,387,630
- Liabilities
- $477,988
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL B MASON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL B MASON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $251,847 total reported compensation
- AMBER TENCIC (CFO & CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER): $189,072 total reported compensation
- CHRISTY MILLER (SENIOR DIRECTOR, DONOR IMPACT): $136,968 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities; giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Special olympics Connecticut, inc. (soct) provides year-round sports training and athletics competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. We served 12,073 athletes and partners throughout the state through local, regional and state programs. This year, soct hosted 372 tournaments and competitions in 24 different sports. We pride ourselves on contributing to the lifelong physical, social, and personal development of individuals with intelectual disabilities in the state, offering many vital non-competition programs such as unified sports fitness clubs, which combine athletes with and without intellectual disabilities in the same clubs to participate in a variety of fitness activities. The athletes leadership program (alps), which allows our athletes the opportunity to be trained in communication and presenting skills. In return, serve as spokesperson for the organization; the healthy athletes program which is designed to help our athletes improve their overall health and fitness by receiving a variety of health services conducted by certified clinicians; and the young athletes program which focuses on developing gross and fine motor skills, eye/hand coordination and skills necessary for these children with intellectual disabilities to complete in special competition once they reach age 8. Total donated goods and services of $2,880,234 supported these programs initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.7%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.7% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 34 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.