Building Fires
Legal name: Building Fires Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814498192
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Canton, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4046923883
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,022
- Expenses
- $78,502
- Assets
- $17,094
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TODD BAKER (CEO)
People named in this filing
- TODD BAKER (CEO)
- JASON MOODY (CHAIRMAN)
- JESSE GUNNIN (SECRETARY)
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
Fanning the inner flames of today’s developing youth to build a better tomorrow.
What it reported doing in 2025
Student-athlete leadership teams (salt) have expanded to include four area high schools and three middle schools, offering weekly leadership development sessions. These sessions encompass workshops on healthy habits, time management, financial literacy, and mental health. In addition, the program has organized community events such as the coach english trail run and the pickleball with a purpose tournament, along with other activities that have successfully raised funds and increased awareness for "building fires" mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.4% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.