Buildingcommunityworkshop
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262132264
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2142522900
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,081,774
- Expenses
- $1,154,238
- Assets
- $742,413
- Liabilities
- $443,536
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BENJE FEEHAN (Executive Dir.): $128,791 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The buildingcommunityWORKSHOP is a Texas-based nonprofit community design centerseeking to improve the livability and viability of communities through the practice of thoughtful design and making. We enrich the lives of residents by bringing design thinking to areas of our cities where resources are most scarce. To do so, [bc] recognizes that it must first understand the social, economic, and environmental issues facing a community before beginning work.[bc] partners with mission-aligned nonprofits to deliver architectural and project management services related to affordable home design and production, including single family, multifamily and prefabricated housing, and creative placemaking initiatives in Dallas and Brownsville, TX. We lend our grant writing expertise to help smaller nonprofits achieve their missions in the neighborhoods we have committed to.
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2024, [bc] continued on its effort to build a collaborative network of housers across the nation to operationalize the prefabricated housing system. This included beginning the expansion of DreamBuild to North Texas. We continued to support neighborhood organizations on neighborhood planning initiatives.We continued to support neighborhood organizations in Dallas on neighborhood planning initiatives and issues impacting their community.
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.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.2% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.