The Building Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850741666
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fredonia, KS, USA
- Phone
- 6202882677
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,391
- Expenses
- $28,357
- Assets
- $33,284
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Travis Falstad (Director and President)
- Beth Ann Falstad (Director and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Travis Falstad (Director and President)
- Stephanie Granato (Director and Secretary)
- Tavia Ross (Director and Treasurer)
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
To strengthen communities and provide solutions for homelessness by developing, coordinating, and delivering regenerative temporary shelter, workforce development and community education on homelessness and sustainability issues.
What it reported doing in 2025
Homelessness Services and Prevention: TBC received a reimbursement grant through the Emergency Solutions Grant program administered by the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation to implement a volunteer-based street outreach and homelessness prevention program for Wilson County. The program trains volunteers under the supervision of a part time contractor to conduct outreach sessions to individuals and families who are literally homeless, at safe public locations, build trust, provide basic needs supplies, and conduct Coordinated Entry assessments through the Homeless Management Information System database. TBC participates in the KS Balance of State CoC and the Coordinated Entry System to manage referrals to housing and supportive services. TBC also received funds for homelessness prevention for individuals who are at imminent risk of homelessness, which pay for rental arrears, utilities, moving costs and deposits. TBC conducted a county-wide meeting to plan and prepare for this program, and a wide array of networking meetings to build partnerships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.3%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 53.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 70.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 81.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.3% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.