Bless the Orphans Inc

Analysis

Bless the Orphans Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelbyville, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Bless the Orphans Inc reported income of $117k and spending of $115k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $86k to $117k (+36%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bless the Orphans Inc sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 41st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shannons Home ($117k), Sugar Bear Foundation ($117k) and Good Neighbors Inc ($117k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $72k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $72k.