CONNECTIONS WORK

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

4TH FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• REENTRY SERVICES: CONNECTIONS WORK PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES TO RETURNING CITIZENS TO SUPPORT THEIR SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION FROM JAIL OR PRISON TO THE BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY, AND FOR THOSE WITH PAST SYSTEM JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT. REENTRY SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BOTH PRE-AND POST-RELEASE AND INCLUDE: CASE MANAGEMENT, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, MENTORING, FINANCIAL LITERACY, FAMILY REUNIFICATION, AND ASSISTANCE SECURING BASIC NEEDS. ADDITIONALLY, CONNECTIONS WORK WORKS TO EDUCATE EMPLOYERS ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF HIRING RETURNING CITIZENS AND PROVIDES ONGOING EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT. IN 2024, CONNECTIONS WORK PROVIDED REENTRY SERVICES TO 1,899 RETURNING CITIZENS THROUGH OVER 10,400 CONTACTS WITH PROGRAM CASE MANAGERS. CONNECTIONS WORK ALSO SERVES AS THE OFFICIAL HUB FOR THE PARDON PROJECT OF BERKS COUNTY, A PROGRAM THAT SEEKS TO NOT ONLY RAISE AWARENESS OF THE PARDON PROCESS, BUT ALSO TO MATCH TRAINED VOLUNTEER PARDON COACHES WITH APPLICANTS SEEKING A PARDON TO ASSIST THEM IN COMPLETING THEIR PARDON APPLICATIONS, GIVING THEM A HIGHER LIKELIHOOD OF OBTAINING A PARDON.

  Expenses $1,307,484 · Revenue $194,122

• REBUILDING REENTRANTS AND READING (R3): CONNECTIONS WORK PARTNERS WITH THE READING MUHLENBERG CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER (RMCTC) AND THE GOGGLEWORKS CENTER FOR THE ARTS TO PROVIDE THE THREE COMPONENTS OF THE TRAINING; CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AT RMCTC, HANDS ON LEARNING IN THE WOODSHOP AND WELDING STUDIO AT THE GOGGLEWORKS AND AN EMPLOYMENT FOCUSED COGNITIVE CURRICULUM DELIVERED BY CONNECTIONS WORK STAFF. IN 2024, 34 PARTICIPANTS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE PROGRAM. GRADUATES OF THE PROGRAM HAVE PROVEN HIGH LEVELS OF SUCCESS - 63% ARE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED AND 96% HAVE NOT RECIDIVATED.

  Expenses $605,748

• PRETRIAL/DIVERSION: PRETRIAL OFFICERS CONDUCT POST-ARREST INTERVIEWS AND ASSESSMENTS OF CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS AND FURNISH THE VERIFIED ASSESSMENTS TO THE JUDICIARY, EITHER PRIOR TO BAIL BEING SET OR AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING. CONNECTIONS WORK ALSO ASSISTS WITH JAIL POPULATION MANAGEMENT BY MONITORING THE PRETRIAL POPULATION AND PROVIDING ASSESSMENTS TO THE COURT FOR DEFENDANTS WHO ARE DEEMED LOW RISK AND ARE ONLY INCARCERATED DUE TO THEIR INABILITY TO PAY MONETARY BAIL. IN 2024, CONNECTIONS WORK PROVIDED 1,316 DEFENDANT ASSESSMENTS TO THE COURTS. CONNECTIONS WORK ALSO PROVIDES SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE REMAIN IN JAIL UNTIL THE FINAL DISPOSITION OF THEIR CASE. CONNECTIONS WORK ALSO OVERSEES THE FORENSIC DIVERSION PROGRAM. THE GOAL OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO ACT AS A LIAISON BETWEEN VARIOUS CRIMINAL JUSTICE ENTITIES TO DECREASE THE INCARCERATION RATE OF NON-VIOLENT MENTALLY ILL DEFENDANTS, WHILE ENSURING COMMUNITY SAFETY.

  Expenses $795,350 · Revenue $706,488

• COMMUNITY OUTREACH: THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH TEAM (COT) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THREE AREAS: 1. VOLUNTEERS: THE TEAM MANAGES THE RECRUITMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF ALL AGENCY VOLUNTEERS THAT SUPPORT OUR VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND REENTRY INITIATIVES, INCLUDING OUR FAMILY CONNECTIONS EVENTS, HOLIDAY GIFT PROJECT, MOTHER'S/FATHER'S VOICE PROGRAM, RETURNING CITIZENS CAREER FAIRS, AND MOCK INTERVIEWING. 2. MARKETING: THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OVERSIGHT AND PRODUCTION OF OUR AGENCY'S MARKETING MATERIAL INCLUDING SOCIAL MEDIA, NEWSLETTERS, AND APPEALS. 3. EVENTS: THE TEAM OVERSEES CONNECTIONS WORK EVENTS AND INITIATIVES INCLUDING THE ANNUAL AWARDS BREAKFAST, TWO CAREER FAIRS, FRIENDS OF CONNECTIONS WORK SOCIAL, RAFFLES, AND OUTSIDE AGENCY SPONSORED EVENTS. IN 2024, OUR VOLUNTEERS HELPED US SERVE JUST UNDER 300 CHILDREN IN OUR HOLIDAY GIFT PROJECT, 775 CHILDREN WITH MOTHER'S/FATHER'S VOICE, AND ASSISTED OVER 450 JOB SEEKERS AT OUR RETURNING CITIZENS CAREER FAIRS.

  Expenses $63,172 · Revenue $52,800

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,233,889

  Expenses

  $3,141,858

  Contributions

  $2,229,495

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,965,200

  Expenses

  $3,073,657

  Contributions

  $1,996,194

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,494,879

  Expenses

  $2,542,521

  Contributions

  $1,712,764

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,537,043

  Expenses

  $2,095,112

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,286,819

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,829,044

  Expenses

  $1,923,365

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,163,762

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,552,164

  Expenses

  $2,253,762

  Assets (EOY)

  $920,428

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,268,740

  Expenses

  $2,388,293

  Assets (EOY)

  $664,039

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,946,348

  Expenses

  $1,832,508

  Assets (EOY)

  $686,319

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,344,817

  Expenses

  $1,281,863

  Assets (EOY)

  $543,574

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $959,098

  Expenses

  $1,013,896

  Assets (EOY)

  $429,324

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $945,705

  Expenses

  $909,001

  Assets (EOY)

  $484,224

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $911,898

  Expenses

  $903,174

  Assets (EOY)

  $443,201

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $971,835

  Assets (EOY)

  $417,863

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY

  $680,527

  2024 · PARTNER AGENCY INVESTMENTS: PRISONER REENTRY SERVICES; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED GRANT: REENTRY WORKS

• UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY

  $545,011

  2023 · PARTNER AGENCY INVESTMENTS: PRISONER REENTRY SERVICES; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED GRANT: REENTRY WORKS

• UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY

  $414,142

  2022 · PARTNER AGENCY INVESTMENTS: RE-ENTRY PROGRAM; FOCUS GRANT: REENTRY WORKS

• COUNCIL ON CHEMICAL ABUSE INC

  $157,020

  2024 · EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE FOR DRUG COURT CLIENTS

• COUNCIL ON CHEMICAL ABUSE INC

  $157,020

  2023 · EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE FOR DRUG COURT CLIENTS

• UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY

  $128,167

  2025 · PARTNER AGENCY INVESTMENTS: WORKING TOWARD CHANGE; ONE-TIME GRANT: REENTRY WORKS

• COUNCIL ON CHEMICAL ABUSE INC

  $59,716

  2022 · EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE FOR DRUG COURT CLIENTS

• THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

  $21,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

  $11,250

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $10,000

  2023 · FOR THE URGENT AND BASIC NEED FUNDING FOR REENTRANT WOMEN

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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