Box of Balloons Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464826289
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Sun Prairie, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082179131
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,205
- Expenses
- $128,136
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- NICOLE MOLL FOUNDER (Director)
- JENNIFER MEAD (Chairman)
- KRIS ACKLEY (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Box of balloons is a non-profit organization on a mission to make each birthday happy and every child celebrated.
What it reported doing in 2025
Birthday boxes donated to families in need for 2025
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 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: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.4%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 12
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -183.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.4% of revenue deployed · 11.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 33/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.