Broadband Builders Guild

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932788290
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
North Charleston, SC, USA
Phone
8036365304
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Vocational, Technical Schools

Reported finances

Revenue
$162,481
Expenses
$154,337
Assets
$163
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICK MORGAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • COLIN GARNER (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)

People named in this filing

  • PATRICK MORGAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • COLIN GARNER (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
  • TIM MCCULLOCH (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

The purpose of broadband builders guild is to provide training and instruction in the technical aspects of broadband installation and service, to provide certification of such training, and to engage in activities related thereto.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization's activities will involve the training and instruction to individuals in the technical aspects of broadband installation and service. This will involve both classroom and on-the-line and in the field instruction. This instruction will be provided by experience linemen and related trades people, retained on a contract basis, all with the goal of enabling the student participants to receive full certification in this highly technical field. Classroom space will be rented as necessary. By providing this training and instruction, the organization seeks to both improve the skill level and earnings potential of the student participants and also increase the supply of certified linemen, of which there is currently a severe shortage, inhibiting the nationwide rollout of broadband.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 148.2% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -58% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.