Bens Blue Bags Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992120266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Crown Point, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2197428283
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,983
- Expenses
- $68,450
- Assets
- $88,994
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENA KODICEK (President)
- MATTHEW KODICEK (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JENA KODICEK (President)
- MATTHEW KODICEK (Vice President)
- DANIEL KODICEK (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educating and supporting first responders with bags containing sensory stimulation items that help to deescalate autistic and special needs patients during over-stimulation emergency situations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ben's blue bags sensory bag contains various sensory items first responders can use on calls to help autistic children, autistic adults, and any patient that is having trouble communicating or calming down at the time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 50.3%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 152.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 50.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.