Build-A-Bear Foundation Inc

Analysis

Build-A-Bear Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2003, 23 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, Build-A-Bear Foundation Inc reported income of $2.0m and spending of $2.2m, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $683k to $2.0m (+192%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 162%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Build-A-Bear Foundation Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Child Nutrition Service Inc ($2.0m), Joyful Heart Foundation ($2.0m) and Ronald McDonald House Northwest Florida Inc ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $136k, net assets of $2.1m.