Cincinnati Blue Line Foundation

Analysis

Cincinnati Blue Line Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Cincinnati, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2018, 8 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 2023, Cincinnati Blue Line Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $461k, leaving 61% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $219k to $1.2m (+445%), an average of +133% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 504%. Over the whole period it spent 43% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Cincinnati Blue Line Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Invested ($1.2m), Treu Mart Fund ($1.2m) and Visiting Nurses Foundation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $32k (7.0% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 1 employees.