Blue Star Moms Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841622728
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Ramon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9257755084
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,936
- Expenses
- $99,299
- Assets
- $91,478
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Suzie Lister (Past President)
- Jeanne Barker (President)
People named in this filing
- Jaci Beering (Treasurer)
- Suzie Lister (Past President)
- Debbie Carbone (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to promote the well-being and public support of men and women on active duty, guard, or reserve with any of the United States Armed Forces, and to promote the well-being and public support of the veterans of any branch of the United States Armed Forces and carry on any other activities associated with the goals as allowed by law.
What it reported doing in 2024
Care PackagesSince our inception and following in the footsteps of our grandmothers and mothers, we have mailed "a little bit of home" to our sons and daughters serving around the world. Due to the generosity of our communities, we have been able to include many more service persons who request a box. Often commanding officers in the field will contact us and let us know that they have a young man or woman who is not receiving any boxes or letters from home. These kids quickly come into our hearts and soon receive a care package, letting them know America supports them. We depend on the public's support and help to continue our mailings.Operation PostcardHave sent over 70,000 letters, notes, and postcards to our troops overseas. This program provides our troops notes of appreciation, support, and admiration. We ask families, friends, schools, clubs, churches or any group or individual to write a positive message of support. Children can create with a hand drawn picture on the front and a message on the back. We include them in our care packages and ecnourage writers to tell them about themselves, their city and their state.
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 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.