Rebuilding Blocks
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What it says it does
Rehabilitates derelict properties.Organizations mission is to promote the health and safety of the general public within the City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by alleviating the conditions that constitute blight in abandoned structures and vacant lots.
- Income
- $260,963
- Spending
- $260,962
- Employees
- 0
- Highest pay
- $234,535, board member
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (2)
- $179,748 spent. New Act 135 Filings Property Date of Filing Property Type 1730 Wharton Street 7/30/2024 Mixed Commercial Use Pending Cases Filed Prior to 7/1/2024 Property Date of Filing Property Type 11804 Colman Road 6/24/2024 Residential 8617 Gillespie Street 3/14/2024 Residential 5106-5108 Germantown Avenue 10/18/2023 Mixed Commercial Use 3801-05 Lancaster Avenue 7/18/2023 Mixed Commercial Use 3231 Clifford Street 1/30/2023 Vacant Lot 6703 N. 11th Street 1/19/2022 Residential 249 E. Girard Avenue 1/25/2023 Mixed Commercial Use 1335 S. Hicks Street 3/31/2022 Vacant Lot 5110 Germantown Avenue 11/20/2020 Vacant Lot
- Form 990, Part III, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: As a qualified non-profit, the corporation utilizes the specific tool of court-appointed conservatorship pursuant to Pennsylvanias Act 135 - Abandoned and Blighted Property Conservatorship Act - to take control of and repair blighted and abandoned properties through court-overseen conservatorship. The mission includes advocating with the state legislature for improvements in the Act or for or against other legislation that would have an impact on the ability of the corporation to carry out its mission to alleviate blight.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since April 2014.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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