Building Together Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823156624
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
9175339522
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Agricultural Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$198,091
Expenses
$189,453
Assets
$123,646
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ANDREW ROSS (SECRETARY)
  • KATHY ROBB (DIRECTOR)
  • RULA ABU-RAJAB (DIRECTOR)

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

Building together is a community driven organization that is jewish, muslim, and christian dedicated to promote collaboration and communication amoung israelis, palestinians and americans through tangible economic projects and dignity-based programming.

What it reported doing in 2025

Building farming capacity - throughout the jordan valley in the west bank, the red weevil insects attack date trees in farming villages, reducing farming capacity and output. This problem can be solved with environmentally friendly pesticides. However, the villages lack trucks to spray their crops. Building together is raising funds for the trucks, to fight the pests, increase crop yields and improve the lives of these farmers and their village. Building joint businesses - our first project within this initiative, is a joint business focused on bringing two communities, one israeli and one palestinian to produce date honey business that will drive revenue and employment for both communities while cultivating relationships on both sides of the border. Building a movement - working with faith institutions to spread our message of dignity, hope and connection, building together also reaches out to schools with a curriculum developed at mit and harvard to teach these principles to youth. We are creating a coalition of faith and educational partners in the united states to connect with each other and to our work in the holy land.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 4.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $189K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.