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Buildings For Babies Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.6MEducation$169kHealth$27kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$13kCrime & Legal$12kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christian Tabernacle$87,433
VISION BOOKS INC$44,000
WORD OF LIFE TABERNACLE$22,252
Individual grant recipient$20,000
True Word Tabernacle$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
NEW LIFE OUTREACH$6,250
St Jude Children's Research HospitalL69$6,000
Apostolic Tabernacle$5,000
Bible Tabernacle Church$5,000
HOUSE OF FELLOWSHIP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Church of the Open Door$5,000
GRACE TABERNACLE$2,883
Active Existance Initiative LTD$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Cosmin Stephan: $8k → 11%New Life Outreach Church: $7k → 17%Oregon County Salvation Army: $5k → 17%Ben Pruitt Word of Life Tabernacle: $15k → 20%HOUSE OF FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 10%Alton Community Foundation Retreat: $10k → 15%Judith Potter Medical: $4k → 21%Malachie Tabernacle: $5k → 11%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $8k → 17%Apostolic Tabernacle: $5k → 12%Bible Tabernacle Church: $5k → 16%Active Existance Initiative LTD: $10k → 3%Beth Eden Baptist Church: $25k → 7%Evergreen Country Day School: $50k → 7%End Time Message Tabernacle: $8k → 8%Spring Tabernacle Christian Fellowship: $9k → 9%End Time Messege Tabernacle: $22k → 10%True Word Tabernacle: $10k → 13%NEW LIFE OUTREACH: $6k → 17%Oregon County Salvation Army: $3k → 17%Christian Tabernacle of Hardy: $170k → 20%Beyond The Walls Outreach: $9k → 20%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $8k → 17%Springs Tabernacle Christian Fellowship: $8k → 9%End Time Message Tabernacle: $15k → 10%True Word Tabernacle: $5k → 13%Oregon County Salvation Army: $3k → 17%Christian Tabernacle: $105k → 20%Beyond the Walls Outreach: $9k → 20%St Jude Children's Research HospitalL69: $6k → 17%End Time Message Tabernacle: $14k → 10%Christian Tabernacle: $100k → 20%Steadfast Still Inc: $9k → 21%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $5k → 17%End Time Message Tabernacle: $10k → 10%Christian Tabernacle: $89k → 20%End Time Message Tabernacle: $10k → 10%Christian Tabernacle: $87k → 20%End Time Messege Tabernacle: $6k → 10%Christian Tabernacle: $84k → 20%End Time Message Tabernacle: $4k → 10%Christian Tabernacle: $77k → 20%Christian Tabernacle of Hardy: $70k → 20%Christian Tabernacle: $30k → 20%Word of Life Tabernacle: $23k → 20%WORD OF LIFE TABERNACLE: $22k → 20%Word of Life Tabernacle: $22k → 20%Word of Life Tabernacle: $21k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IN
OH
CT
CO
MO
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 23 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
32

Total granted

$1.7M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+41%

Still filing today

13%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CT
    Christian Tabernacle
    7× · 2018–2025 · $572k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2025 · $341k
  • CT
    Christian Tabernacle of Hardy
    2× · 2017–2023 · $240k

Funded once

  • EC
    EVERGREEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +41%
  • BE
    Beth Eden Baptist Church
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Christian Tabernacle: $571,891 · OtherChristian TabernacleIndividual grant recipient: $341,319 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChristian Tabernacle of Hardy: $239,588 · OtherChristian Tabernacle of HardyVision Books Inc: $119,000 · OtherVision Books IncWord of Life Tabernacle: $88,028 · OtherEND TIME MESSAGE TABERNACLE: $60,425 · Other+52 more: $366,243 · Other+52 moreEVERGREEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 · HealthSAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · HealthEndtime Message Tabernacle: $16,625 · Religion
Other$1,786,494Education$50,000Health$27,000Religion$16,625

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVERGREEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELIEVER'S INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,450 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEndtime Message Tabernacle: $16,625 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds EVERGREEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BELIEVER'S INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Endtime Message Tabernacle ↗
  • Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Buildings For Babies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buildings For Babies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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