The Blue Card Foundation

Analysis

The Blue Card Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Blue Card Foundation reported income of $150k and spending of $321k, spending 214% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $100k to $150k (+50%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 220%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Blue Card Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rochester Area Foundation ($150k), C&s Foundation Inc ($150k) and 306 Foundation Inc ($150k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $138k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $138k.