Buy a Brick Foundation Inc

Analysis

Buy a Brick Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairhope, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Buy a Brick Foundation Inc reported income of $279k and spending of $276k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $160k to $279k (+74%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Buy a Brick Foundation Inc sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Good News Nepal ($278k), Tia Foundation Inc ($279k) and Center for World Indigenous Studies ($278k).

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 $99k against liabilities of $94k, net assets of $4,601.