The Connection Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384040809
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Prince Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015093682
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,288
- Expenses
- $109,158
- Assets
- $114,701
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA WILLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAMELA WILLEY (PRESIDENT)
- PRESLEY COLLINSON (TREASURER)
- LISA COLMUS (DIRECTOR)
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
Work with young adults post high school who have intellectual developmental delays. We reinforce daily living, social and work related skills to help them become as independent as possible.
What it reported doing in 2025
Work with young adults post high school who have intellectual development delays. We reinforce daily living, social & work related skills to help them become as independent as possible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,964.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.