The Connection
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920572383
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9096336827
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $1,860
- Assets
- $4,886
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGIE WATSON BALDERRAMA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MARGIE WATSON BALDERRAMA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MONICA HUNTER (SECRETARY)
- SHAWNNA PEREZ (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
The connection was created to provide assistance to all individuals who are struggling with uncertainty of life. Which includes programs that builds healing in every individual by unity of purpose. These supportive services are not limited to missions, training, food pantry, daycare, music, girl talk, boy talk, counseling, ordination and licensing oif individuals for service. The mission of the connection is to equip and train individiuals to be sent out whole.
What it reported doing in 2025
The connection was created to provide assistance to all individuals who are struggling with uncertainty of life. Which includes programs that builds healing in every individual by unity of purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.63; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 104% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -30.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.