Buildout California

Overview

Mission

Advocates for historically underutilized businesses and our allies, at every level of government and business affairs. Convenes a cross section of the construction/a&e business community, and allies, successful businesses and winning competitively bid contracts in three distinct areas: 1) connecting historically underutilized businesses/certified firms, and allies, with key decision makers within the procurement pipeline who are building winning teams for contract pursuits and the appropriate entities who are issuing contracts for bidding; 2) advocating for economic impact programming at the local, state and national levels as it relates to historically underutilized businesses, and allies, in the construction services industries; and 3) providing relevant, customized, one-on-one technical assistance so that historically underutilized businesses, and allies, can more effectively compete for contract opportunities (pre-award) and then ensure that once successful, the firm has the suppor

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 0
• Transparency & Controls: 94
• Accountability: 76
• Sustainability: 26
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $463K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
• Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
• Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 4 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
• Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.