Supportive Connections Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994440898
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jackson, MS, USA
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Mental Health Center
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $350,863
- Expenses
- $349,239
- Assets
- $171,624
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christen Bevan Alarcon (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Christen Bevan Alarcon (CEO): $37,431 total reported compensation
- Winfred Alarcon (CCO): $8,914 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Supportive Connections Community Services SCCS provides trauma-informed culturally responsive and financially inclusive mental health care. We offer outpatient therapy crisis response and clinical training to increase access for underserved communities in California and Mississippi.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 SCCS launched the OP+ Program to provide on-call crisis response and group therapy primarily supporting survivors of sexual assault in California and Mississippi. The program served 45+ survivors initiated outreach to local universities and built the foundational structure for future group and crisis-based offerings. It was funded entirely through donated administrative labor and infrastructure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 52
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.5%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 18
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.5% of revenue deployed · 17.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX AllOtherExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.