Texas · Nonprofit
BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC
BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $323k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $-31107
What Board Development Systems Inc does
Mission
Boardbuild has a mission to strengthen communities through the training and matching of established and emerging leaders with nonprofit boards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
BoardBuild prepares community leaders to serve on nonprofit boards by offering self-paced online training the Essentials of Nonprofit Board Governance and Governance with Equity. In FY 2025 1050 individuals completed these training programs. BoardBuild also utilizes an algorithm based matching system to connect nonprofit boards and community leaders seeking specific skills passion and expertise for nonprofit board leadership. In FY 2025 almost 100 community leaders were connected to nonprofit boards in communities around the country. Additionally more than 300 local regional and national nonprofit organizations posted open board positions using the BoardBuild platform seeking to fill functional gaps on their boards and committees.
$260,565 spent$128,375 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $260,565.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6k to $125k (+1942%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Td Smyers
CEO
Board chair
Willie Rankin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $50k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $475k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Tarrant County). These are real filings, and they are not money BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Way of Tarrant County · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC?
- BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $170,000 in grants to BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOARD DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing