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BENS BELLS INC

EIN 76-0779755 TUCSON, AZ

Largest nonprofits in Arizona

Revenue 2024
$724,076
Expenses 2024
$785,575

Program services were 72.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F60
Classification
1200
Street
40 W BROADWAY BLVD

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF BEN'S BELLS IS TO TEACH INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES ABOUT THE POSTIVE IMPACTS OF INTENTIONAL KINDNESS AND TO INSPITE PEOPLE TO PRACTICE KINDNESS AS A WAY OF LIFE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO TEACH THE POSITIVE IMPACTS OF WILLFUL KINDNESS AND INSPIRE PRACTICING KINDNESS AS A WAY OF LIFE.

  • STUDIO & MURALSOUR STUDIO PROGRAM SERVES AS THE HEART OF OUR CREATIVE EFFORTS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. IT IS A VIBRANT HUB WHERE VOLUNTEERS COME TOGETHER TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL, MEANINGFUL ART THAT FURTHERS THE MESSAGES OF KINDNESS AND CREATES CONNECTION. THE STUDIO HOSTS NUMEROUS WORKSHOPS AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES, OFFERING PARTICIPANTS A HANDS-ON WAY TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR MISSION. MOST NOTABLY, THE STUDIO PROGRAMMING HAS RESULTED IN OVER 100,000 BEN'S BELLS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO DATE AND OVER 200 MOSAIC KINDNESS MURALS INSTALLED.

    Expenses $281,624 · Revenue $101,512

  • EDUCATION (KIND CAMPUS)OUR KIND CAMPUS PROGRAM OFFERS FREE, RESEARCH-BASED CURRICULUM TO ANY SCHOOL THAT WISHES TO PARTICIPATE. KIND CAMPUS PROVIDES RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES THAT HELP FOSTER EMPATHY, KINDNESS, AND A POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE. THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN USED IN SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND HAS SERVED OVER 100,000 INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS ANNUALLY.

    Expenses $87,618 · Revenue $18,630

  • MERCHANDISEOUR MERCHANDISE PROGRAM NOT ONLY HELPS FUND OUR INITIATIVES BUT ALSO EXTENDS OUR MESSAGE INTO EVERYDAY LIFE. EACH ITEM IS THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED AND PRODUCED TO BE A TOOL FOR KINDNESS OR A VISUAL REMINDER. MANY ITEMS ARE MADE DIRECTLY IN OUR STUDIO, AND ANY THAT ARE NOT ARE SOURCED THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES. THROUGH OUR MERCHANDISE PROGRAM, OVER 10,000 CUSTOMERS HAVE BROUGHT VISUAL REMINDERS INTO THEIR HOMES AND WORKPLACES AS WELL AS GIFTED THEM TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES.

    Expenses $198,414 · Revenue $243,414

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Andrew Luria

    BOARD CHAIR, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Buck Brown

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erika Barnes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janine Duplessis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Hudgens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeni Jankowski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna Janus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adam Lazarus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Damhnait McLaughlin

    DIRECTOR (THRU 08/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ralph Scaramella

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniela Siqueiros

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phil Tilicki

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Helen Gomez Bernard

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $65,322
    From this org
    $63,474
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,848
    Hours/week
    40

  • Autumn Rentmeester

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $58,023
    From this org
    $55,959
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,064
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kaitlyn Kevershan

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $42,080
    From this org
    $39,616
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,464
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jeannette Mare

    CHIEF KINDNESS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $4,649
    From this org
    $4,649
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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
    $724,076
    Expenses
    $785,575
    Contributions
    $292,068
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $947,888
    Expenses
    $1,170,227
    Contributions
    $291,548
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $907,238
    Expenses
    $1,153,211
    Contributions
    $316,869
    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
    $916,191
    Expenses
    $843,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $554,976

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $664,870
    Expenses
    $705,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $363,520

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $720,396
    Expenses
    $820,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,887

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $991,043
    Expenses
    $1,028,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,084

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,037,055
    Expenses
    $1,008,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,522

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $903,800
    Expenses
    $872,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,308

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $687,117
    Expenses
    $725,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,764

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $566,670
    Expenses
    $524,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,881

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $310,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,735

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.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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.