Building Blocks of Topeka Inc

Analysis

Building Blocks of Topeka Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Topeka, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1993, 33 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 of Topeka Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $3.9m, spending 275% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.4m (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 152% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Building Blocks of Topeka Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Individual Dynamics ($1.4m), One Spirit ($1.4m) and Jacobus Ten Broek Memorial Endowment Fund ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.7% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $5.0m, net assets of $100k. It reported 92 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.