Bladen Smart Start-A Partnership for Children Inc

Analysis

Bladen Smart Start-A Partnership for Children Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Clarkton, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 June 2023, Bladen Smart Start-A Partnership for Children Inc reported income of $482k and spending of $409k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $343k to $482k (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Bladen Smart Start-A Partnership for Children Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Asset Builders of America Inc ($482k), South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees ($482k) and Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Med ($482k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $52k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $172k. At year end it held assets of $307k against liabilities of $146k, net assets of $161k. It reported 6 employees.