Boredom Busters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850794690
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chantilly, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7036255416
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,241
- Expenses
- $139,161
- Assets
- $251,467
- Liabilities
- $2,978
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marcie McCauley (President)
People named in this filing
- Marcie McCauley (President)
- John McCauley (Secretary - Treasurer)
- Jessica McCauley (Director)
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
Boredom Buster bags to sick children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide gift bags of books, toys, games, and other items to children enduring long hospital stays. These items are provided to hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses across the USA.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.