Building Blocks for Community Enrichment

Analysis

Building Blocks for Community Enrichment is a registered charity in United States, based in Oneill, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 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, Building Blocks for Community Enrichment reported income of $3.9m and spending of $3.4m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.6m to $3.9m (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 18%. 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, Building Blocks for Community Enrichment sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 90th percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Services Inc ($3.9m), Gateway Community Partners Inc ($3.9m) and Family Pathways ($3.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $305k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $663k. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $91k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 25 employees.