Building Blocks Foundation

Analysis

Building Blocks Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Mason, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 2022, Building Blocks Foundation reported income of $230k and spending of $217k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $179k to $230k (+28%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Building Blocks Foundation sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Go Time Ministries ($230k), Opulent Philanthropy Inc ($230k) and Black River Environmental Improvement Association Inc ($230k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 75% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $71k. At year end it held assets of $151k against liabilities of $1,766, net assets of $149k. It reported 2 employees.