Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832526232
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6125129588
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,000
- Expenses
- $103,118
- Assets
- $266,904
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rafaela Rodriguez (President)
- Doug Mork (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Rafaela Rodriguez (President)
- Merle Payne (Secretary)
- Eduardo Cardenas (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of building dignity and respect standards council (bdc) is to set the standards for and monitor the development of a twin cities construction industry that advances the human rights of the low-income communities affected by the industry through implementation of the building dignity and respect program (bdr).
What it reported doing in 2024
O when socially-responsible developers join the building dignity and respect program, they will agree to ensure that all contractors at every tier of a project abide by human rights-based, ethical standards which address forced labor, wage theft and other exploitative conditions. The monitoring of conditions impacting the human rights of low-income construction workers will principally be carried out through regular auditing agreed to by participating developers and contractors as well as the operation of a 24/7 worker support line. As part of the monitoring program, bdc will educate workers on the laws and human rights-based standards promoted by the program. In 2024, continued the development of worker education tools that will be provided to all workers in the program; developed the pre-audit, audit, reporting and complaint investigation tools for the program; partnered with municipal leaders and community allies around strategies for prevention of wage theft and worker exploitation; continued work with a coalition of organizations to build the rise up construction initiative, focused on creating greater opportunities for workers to connect with apprenticeships and careers in the building trades; continued meeting with developers about appropriate responses to construction services rendered under ethically unacceptable conditions; organized a convening of nonprofit and community affordable housing developers to discuss higher labor standards and bdr program participation; announced agreement with two non-profit developers to participate with bdc in future projects; began conversation with Vermont-based commercial developer to participate with bdc in future projects; hired consultant to facilitate industry research and developer negotiations towards program participation agreements
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.7%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; 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: 28.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.59; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.7% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.