Buildabridge International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
233048553
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2158420428
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religious Printing, Publishing
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$140,842
Expenses
$143,467
Assets
$27,591
Liabilities
$636

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMI YARES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • DAVID EUWINGS (BOARD CHAIR)
  • KELLY FINLAW (BOARD MEMBER)
  • AISHA AL-MUID (BOARD MEMBER)

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

Engage art-making to bring hope and healing to children and families in contexts of poverty, crisis, trauma, and homelessness; and to impact a child's academic, social, artistic, and character.

What it reported doing in 2025

Engage in art-making to bring hope and healing to children and families in context of poverty, crisis, trauma, and homelessness; and to impact a child's academic, social, artistic, and character development. Programs offered are art journaling, arts based self-care, song writing, dance and movement, photography, and also theater & improv.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74

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: -1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 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: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.