Filling in the Blanks Inc

Analysis

Filling in the Blanks Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Norwalk, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 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 2023, Filling in the Blanks Inc reported income of $3.0m and spending of $2.8m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $3.0m (+121%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Filling in the Blanks Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources & Related Sci ($3.0m), African American Community Services Agency ($3.0m) and Stoddard County Association for Retarded Citizens Inc ($3.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $529k. At year end it held assets of $5.6m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $4.6m. It reported 14 employees.