Building Industry Association of So Ca Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952507082
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9495539500
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,047,826
- Expenses
- $6,865,339
- Assets
- $4,732,640
- Liabilities
- $2,749,281
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF MONTEJANO (CEO)
- CARLOS RODRIGUEZ (BV CEO)
- ADAM WOOD (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF MONTEJANO (CEO): $458,241 total reported compensation
- CRAIG FOSTER (EXECUTIVE VP): $347,297 total reported compensation
- CARLOS RODRIGUEZ (BV CEO): $274,757 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 bring together and represent the southern California region's residential builders, community developers, contractors, subcontractors and associated professionals, to provide information, advocacy, labor relations, and community relations programs to promote a positive business environment for the homebuilding and community development industry.
What it reported doing in 2024
Labor programs: assisted members in collective bargaining with labor unions.other programs include: member services, pac administrations, advertising, and miscellaneous events to promote awareness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.6%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.6% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $458K · 36 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.