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BACKING THE BLUE LINE INC

EIN 46-2002406 BLOOMINGTON, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2024
$162,668
Expenses 2024
$80,124

Program services were 75.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
7900 INTERNATIONAL DR STE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

5 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATIONS STATED PURPOSE UNITES THE POWER OF MEMBERS AND THE GENEROSITY OF DONORS TO HONOR AND SUPPORT MINNEOSTA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, WIVES AND FAMILIES. WE MOBILIZE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, LABOR AND ASSISTANCE DURING TIMES OF ILLNESS OR WORK RELATED ACCIDENTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BACKING THE BLUE LINE UNITES THE POWER OF MEMBERS AND THE GENEROSITY OF DONORS TO HONOR AND SUPPORT MINNEOSTA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, WIVES AND FAMILIES. WE MOBILIZE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, LABOR AND ASSISTANCE DURING TIMES OF ILLNESS OR WORK RELATED ACCIDENTS.

  • IN 2024, BACKING THE BLUE LINE SUPPORTED 388 MINNESOTA LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILIES BY PROVIDING THEM WITH SUPPORT WHETHER IT BE IN THE FORM OF MONEY, GIFTS, RESOURCES OR PHYSICAL ASSISTANCE. IN ADDITION, SIGNATURE BLUE LINE ROSES WERE DELIVERED TO 50+ MINNESOTA LAW ENFORCEMENTS FAMILIES AT A MEMORIAL/FUNERAL. BACKING THE BLUE LINE SUPPORTED ITS MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, GATHERINGS AND A SPACE FOR US TO COME TOGETHER AND BOND OVER OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OUR OFFICERS

    Expenses $60,224 · Grants $12,916

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ashley Buzicky

    COMMUNITY EN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Bethany Danner

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Lindsay Dupic

    MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gretchen Gifford

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Mel Koenen

    WELLNESS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Stephanie Leclaire

    SOCIAL EVENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Shanna McArthur

    MEMORIAL ROS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Emma Murphey

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Amy Schweigert

    HEALTH & WEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Carine Steffens

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Erica Urbina

    MEMBERSHIP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Diann Valento

    FAMILY SUPPO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $162,668
    Expenses
    $80,124
    Contributions
    $167,358
    Grants paid
    $12,916
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,683
    Expenses
    $115,448
    Contributions
    $60,582
    Grants paid
    $18,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $120,267
    Expenses
    $92,000
    Contributions
    $52,101
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $120,267
    Expenses
    $92,000
    Contributions
    $52,101
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $63,610
    Expenses
    $99,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $608,597
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $75,259
    Expenses
    $108,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $616,604
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $348,773
    Expenses
    $333,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $546,105
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $238,509
    Expenses
    $190,718
    Assets (EOY)
    $373,280
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $110,506
    Expenses
    $223,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,554
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $228,801
    Expenses
    $147,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,158

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Jessica Knutson
Mailing address
6066 Shingle Creek Pkwy PMB 344Brooklyn Center MN 55430

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.