Missouri · Nonprofit
BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC
BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared funderslocal
- Jewelers for Childrenportfolio match
- DTCareportfolio match
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.
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.
98% of BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $38k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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-A-BEAR FOUNDATION 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
BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 40% — 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
75% of BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared funderslocalMO · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 94 organizations near you
- Jewelers for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DTCareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Era Cap Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LANFestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toast Life Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children First - America's Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cr Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Broome County Community Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyndham Worldwide Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beazer Charity Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meglbagl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc · corp_trust
- Build-A-Bear UK · corp_trust
- Build-A-Bear Canada · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC?
- BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $45,000 in grants to BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing