Building Homes for Heroes Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
204540852
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Island Park, NY, USA
Phone
5166849220
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing, Shelter N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,093,036
Expenses
$17,889,334
Assets
$24,127,747
Liabilities
$660,670

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDREW PUJOL (CEO & CHAIRMAN OF THE BOAR)
  • KIMBERLY VESEY (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIMBERLY VESEY (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT): $196,950 total reported compensation
  • NANCY MAURO (CFO): $165,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Building homes for heroes is determined and devoted to bringing renewed hope to our nation's injured veterans, first responders and their families. The organization builds or modifies homes, and gifts them, mortgage-free, to injured veterans, first responders and their families, while providing support services to enable them to build better and brighter lives and reach new heights. It's truly an honor to serve the men and women who have courageously served and sacrificed for our country.

What it reported doing in 2025

Athletics + academics, emergency funding and financial support programs: our goal is to always empower our veterans and their families, so they survive and thrive ahead. Our emergency funding program enables us to support veterans and first responders through difficult periods and sudden, life-altering moments. These moments can include, but are not limited to, their struggles, an illness, the loss of a job, or a major repair needed by disastrous weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding. This program helps prevent life-altering foreclosures and the devastating risk of homelessness for veterans and their families, while also providing immediate support to those who are already experiencing homelessness or standing on the brink of it. Another major way we help veterans improve their financial well-being is by providing financial guidance to maintain home expenses and maintain their homes, and to plan a successful financial future ahead. To achieve that end, we offer partnerships with certified financial professionals to assist them through their finances and help veterans and their families focus on living a promising and productive life, while also learning about investing, the benefits of compound interest, and saving for the future. A major focus of the financial support program is to highlight the importance of minimizing or eliminating debt entirely, and the freedom it provides to live an ever more hopeful future ahead. Building homes for heroes is also supporting our veterans to accomplish their dreams in athletics and representing the USA once again in international competition, plus their goals and wishes with academics following their service. Many of our veterans go on to continue their education with our organization's support. These opportunities help restore confidence, provide renewed purpose, and help veterans rediscover a sense of fulfillment beyond their service. All these programs are a large part of our mission to help our veterans build better and brighter lives well above and beyond the gifting of a home.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $43.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $17.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $197K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.5M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.