Bloom A Free Store
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881890663
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,953
- Expenses
- $104,014
- Assets
- $61,277
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Justin Bradshaw (Executive Director Jan 2025 - Oct 2025)
- Lee Ann Dewey (Executive Director Nov 2025 - Present)
People named in this filing
- Justin Bradshaw (Executive Director Jan 2025 - Oct 2025)
- Lee Ann Dewey (Executive Director Nov 2025 - Present)
- Lauren Castro (Director of Program Development)
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
Bloom A Free Store is a charitable organization providing basic needs to families with young children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Bloom served a total of 1,045 families in need multiple times in 2025 by providing diapers wipes and donations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
MIXED - 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.2%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 24%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.2% of revenue deployed · 24% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.