Bluestem Pace Inc

Analysis

Bluestem Pace Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in North Newton, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bluestem Pace Inc reported income of $11.6m and spending of $11.2m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.5m to $11.6m (+111%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bluestem Pace Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Trumbull Community Action Program ($11.6m), Village North Inc ($11.6m) and Community Services of Northeast Texas Inc ($11.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.0m against liabilities of $8.0m, net assets of -$3.0m.