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BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC

BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,923 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($299,856). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$420k
Net assets
$134k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Building Blocks of Topeka Inc does

Mission

Child care.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Child care for approximately 200 children on an average daily basis, provided for the employees of a non-profit hospital in topeka, kansas.

    $3,435,369 spent$1,178,539 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,435,369.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.0M) Expenses 104 ($1.1M) Net assets 139 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 113 ($1.1M) Expenses 115 ($1.2M) Net assets 92 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 132 ($1.3M) Expenses 145 ($1.5M) Net assets 77 ($872k)2021 Revenue 158 ($1.6M) Expenses 182 ($1.9M) Net assets 51 ($581k)2022 Revenue 164 ($1.7M) Expenses 229 ($2.4M) Net assets -12 ($-134563)2024 Revenue 128 ($1.3M) Expenses 353 ($3.7M) Net assets 12 ($134k)
2017201820192020202120222024
Revenue (128)Expenses (353)Net assets (12)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.7M (+110%).

$1.2M
$1.6M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$2.7M
$1.3M
2017201820192020202120222024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 12% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$28k
’17
−$55k
’18
−$49k
’19
−$170k
’20
−$290k
’21
−$716k
’22
−$2.4M
’24
0.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2017201820192020202120222024
Listed2333357
Joined··+0+0+0+2·
No longer listed··0000·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32k → $124k.

From the IRS filings of BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.

KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−183% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In Kansas

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Stormont Vail Healthcare Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC?
BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,923 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($299,856). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $419,923 in grants to BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC?
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $299,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing