Backing the Blue Line Inc

Analysis

Backing the Blue Line Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bloomington, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2014, 12 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 2022, Backing the Blue Line Inc reported income of $120k and spending of $92k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $349k to $120k (-66%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Backing the Blue Line Inc sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 39th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Supporting Hands Inc ($120k), North American Limousin Educational Corporation ($120k) and Guadalupe Hope Society ($120k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% of the total. At year end it held assets of $563k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $563k.