Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation Inc

Analysis

Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Beaumont, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation Inc reported income of $370k and spending of $224k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $265k to $370k (+40%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 194%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation Inc sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bow Foundation ($370k), Grants Pass Sobering Center Inc ($370k) and Rarerising ($370k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $57k (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $40k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $1,760, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 3 employees.