Blinknow Foundation a Nj Nonprofit

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260819262
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mendham, NJ, USA
Phone
9738282955
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Residential Care & Adult Day Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,625,696
Expenses
$4,361,536
Assets
$12,310,602
Liabilities
$90,377

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • MARGARET DOYNE (FOUNDER & CE): $220,578 total reported compensation
  • JOHN ESTRELLA (EXECUTIVE DI): $219,390 total reported compensation
  • BIDISA RAI (DIRECTOR OF): $161,420 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Part iii, line 1 blinknow's mission is to change the world by empowering nepal's children. The organization does this by providing quality education, a safe environment, and through inspiring others.blinknow envisions a world where every child is safe, educated, and loved. The organization provides community outreach to reduce poverty, empower women, improve health and encourage sustainability and social justice. To fulfill its mission, blinknow provides financial, managerial and essential support to the kopila valley children's home, the big sister's home, the kopila valley school and the kopila valley women's center. The home provides a loving, caring, permanent place for children who have no other care options, as well as transitional housing and life skills to those coming of age in their care. Kopila valley school provides free, high-quality education in a dynamic learning environment to children from pre-primary through high school at its sustainable campus. The kopila valley wom

What it reported doing in 2025

The kopila valley school (kvs) in surkhet, nepal, serves 453 students from nursery to 12th grade, including a management program for classes 11 and 12. Kvs provides high-quality education in math, science, social studies, english as a second language, environmental learning, and computer skills. Enrichments include art and music programs as well as numerous clubs and sports. Kopila has earned a reputation for excellence in the region based on national test scores and student performance. The school strives to create a warm, nurturing environment for students, serving nutritious snacks and lunches sourced locally and from our organic farm, and providing medical and counseling services. Blinknow also supports the education of recent kvs graduates who attend 11th and 12th grade "plus two" programs at schools in the community. Kopila valley school has been deemed "the greenest school in nepal" due to the environmentally sustainable and earthquake-resistant school campus and place-based environmental learning program. The campus includes an animal farm, an organic food garden, and environmental systems that are incorporated into lessons, including solar energy, biogas, rainwater harvesting, aquaponics, and gray and blackwater treatment. Pedagogically, the curriculum at kvs focuses on place-based learning, an approach that involves students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, and experiences, tying into our sustainability goals and values. We know that students are more likely to be successful if they have support at home. Our intentionally designed program for all guardians of new students aims to develop these relationships and provide tools for creating positive home support. The program orients new families and covers topics like promoting development and behavior through positive attention and play, effects of household violence and stress on child development, ways of decreasing parental stress and anger, empathetic communication skills, non-violent discipline strategies, family finances and budgeting, and nutrition and health.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.82; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $221K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.