Minnesota · Nonprofit
BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL
BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,101 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($169,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $454k
What Bricks to Bread International does
Mission
Bricks to Bread International is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization whose primary exempt purpose is to alleviate poverty and build global leaders. We help build brick ovens for Costa Rican families seeking a sustainable source of income. Bricks to Bread assists and mentors families in the construction and maintenance of their own oven and offers training and assistance in developing a solid business plan to sell fresh baked goods to their community. Brick ovens not only help provide a family with a sustainable income, but they also bring communities together. The ovens become a focal point in the community, become a gathering place for community events, and bring people together. Bricks to Bread accomplishes all of this through donations, partnerships, volunteer trip opportunities and baking bread together.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rural Economic Development. 2,500 new lives touched by our programs. 6,350 members of our oven project communities received our ongoing support. 2 Households broke the poverty cycle barrier, achieving new financial security owning their own business during 2022. Our brick ovens are built for women seeking a sustainable source of income to support their families. They demonstrate an aptitude and desire to manage, maintain, and run a successful business. Furthermore, rural Costa Rican communities rarely have access to fresh baked goods, many in food desert areas where the sources are limited. Breads from our ovens offer a sustainable, fresh option for the community. Our oven program provides needed resources for the whole community, giving families the opportunity to live better lives and give back to their communities. Each oven project includes the construction of a new brick oven, a processing and packaging facility and seed funding for training, business development and start-up costs. During 2022, we worked within 23 different communities throughout Costa Rica and Honduras, empowering 93 women to overcome adversity and achieving financial security. During 2022, we added twelve…
$155,131 spent$35,447 earned by the program94% of program spendingGlobal Leadership 70 Youth Volunteers engaged in different community driven initiatives. Four of these experiences included volunteer trip experiences, impacting the lives of 23 local volunteers, and 6 in-country volunteers. These trips promote world peace, expand worldview, foster cross-cultural understanding, and inspire servant leadership. We offer a unique service learning opportunity for volunteers interested in sharing their gifts and talents through our Volunteer Trip Experiences. Our 7-11 day excursions cultivate a life changing cultural exchange between recipients and volunteers, build meaningful relationships and provide opportunities that expand worldview, foster cross-cultural understanding, and inspire servant leadership.
$2,000 spent1% of program spendingCommunity Engagement: Our community events are centered around the warmth of a community bread oven. During 2023, we offered 21 baking events, reaching over 798 local families who participated in our mission through our baking events. We offer volunteer experiences and sell baked goods throughout the region. Our oven events demonstrate just how our oven recipients in rural Costa Rica change lives with a brick and a loaf.
$7,041 spent$6,286 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,172.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $317k to $489k (+54%).
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.
93% of BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Nancy F Alvarado
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $30k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL’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
BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
76% of BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL: 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 BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL?
- BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,101 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($169,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $234,101 in grants to BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $169,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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