Building Decarbonization Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854008764
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lewes, DE, USA
- Phone
- 4123024784
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,995,817
- Expenses
- $20,151,647
- Assets
- $8,912,457
- Liabilities
- $648,180
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PANAMA BARTHOLOMY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- PANAMA BARTHOLOMY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $256,366 total reported compensation
- ANDRE MEURER (DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT): $221,748 total reported compensation
- JOSE TORRES (MANAGING DIRECTOR OF STATES & REGIONS): $221,423 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To harness the power of coalition to transform the nation's buildings through clean energy, using policy, research, market development, and public engagement to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings.
What it reported doing in 2024
The building decarbonization coalition aligns critical stakeholders on a path to transform the nation's buildings through clean energy, using policy, research, market development and public engagement. The bdc and its members are charting the course to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings to improve people's health, cut climate and air pollution, prioritize high-road jobs, and ensure that our communities are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.bdc believes that to create lasting, equitable, systemic change, policymakers, industry, and advocates need to be at the same table crafting policies that build the electrification market in parallel with phasing out gas. Industry needs regulatory certainty to shift production, sales and training practices; workers deserve a fair and responsible transition to high-road careers; and low-income and ej communities should not experience displacement risks or additional energy burden. To achieve all of this at the speed and scale needed, diverse groups must work together to craft inclusive policies.bdc is a collection of energy providers, manufacturers, design and construction firms, local governments, regional coalition leaders, and national ngos, all committed to eliminating pollution from the built environment. Through market and policy solutions, the bdc convenes diverse stakeholders and catalyzes fast, fair action to accelerate the development of zero-emission homes and buildings, and eliminate one of the largest sources of climate pollution: burning fossil fuels in buildings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $256K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $743K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.