Washington · Nonprofit
BUILD 2 LEAD
BUILD 2 LEAD (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,478 to it, the largest being WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI ($128,388). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $666k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Build 2 Lead does
Mission
To empower, engage, and educate bipoc youth, their families and communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
List of accomplishments for 2024:- Total youth served: 450 in the South King and Pierce County Areas- Total Hours of youth programming and mentorship: 500 hours- Program Outcomes: Provided Civic-Engagement Training for 30 youth, Workforce Development Pre-apprenticeship training for 25 youth, After school social and emotional programming for 22 youth and summer learning experiences for 25 youth. Provided experiential healthcare opportunities for 300 youth. Provided safe spaces and community engagement opportunities for 50 youthClosing the G.A.P:In partnership with ROOTS of Success, Closing the G.A.P. provides students ages 16-24 with access to over 100 hours of work development training. Students graduate with resumes, interview experience, business plans, and industry credentials. Outcomes include school completion (high school diploma or equivalent), retaining a job, and enrollmentinto post-secondary education or advanced training.Civic-Champions: Middle and high school aged youth learn about the power of advocacy within the various levels of government, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, the systems of education, healthcare, and criminal justice, and form Youth Executive Committees…
$463,860 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $463,860.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $17k to $150k (+772%).
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.
100% of BUILD 2 LEAD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $28k → $127k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 BUILD 2 LEAD’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
BUILD 2 LEAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 BUILD 2 LEAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 73% · 2022 68% · 2023 47% — 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
72% of BUILD 2 LEAD's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
BUILD 2 LEAD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUILD 2 LEAD
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILD 2 LEAD: 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 BUILD 2 LEAD?
- BUILD 2 LEAD (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,478 to it, the largest being WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI ($128,388). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILD 2 LEAD have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $339,478 in grants to BUILD 2 LEAD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILD 2 LEAD?
- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI is the largest funder on record, with $128,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILD 2 LEAD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2022–2025), 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