Colorado · Nonprofit
BUILD CHANGE
BUILD CHANGE (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,926,084 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,026,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Build Change does
Mission
Our mission is to greatly reduce deaths, injuries, and economic losses caused by housing and school collapses due to earthquakes, extreme weather and fires.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Latin america and the caribbean: in colombia, resilient housing efforts shifted to community-led initiatives, with over 250 community organizations enrolling in the government-led "cambia mi casa" program. Their influence led to new regulations integrating climate resilience and significantly increasing structural improvement subsidies. In dominica, the cdri-supported project successfully completed a housing survey of over 450 homes, with initial data processed and findings shared with stakeholders. Haiti achieved 60% completion of its national building code revision, maintaining smooth coordination and high satisfaction. In mexico, Build Change positioned itself as a key expert, contributing to 623 home improvements and finalizing a memorandum of understanding with conavi, making key resilient housing documents publicly available.
$1,020,156 spent$478,834 earned by the program32% of program spendingAsia pacific: Build Change in indonesia initiated multiple impactful projects, advising on a new green housing subsidy program, supporting home retrofitting advocacy, and developing an affordable heat-resilient home financing model. They trained hundreds of microfinance officers and reached over a thousand homeowners, also advancing digital tools for assessments. The maldives saw the successful conclusion and public launch of comprehensive resilient housing guidance for local stakeholders. In nepal, four model homes were retrofitted, and technical support provided for two houses in jajarkot, alongside awareness campaigns. The philippines strengthened 894 homes, trained 994 builders, and engaged nearly 10,000 individuals, with fortified homes notably withstanding major typhoons. A key policy reform was also secured for preventive house strengthening.
$775,993 spent$30,355 earned by the program25% of program spendingAfrica and the middle east: Build Change concluded a world bank project in comoros, delivering safer prototype designs, the first local building guide, professional training, and a construction supervision app now actively used by inspectors. In morocco, a training site for the asni community center retrofit was completed, training 10 people and retrofitting one structure, with homeowner awareness sessions initiated. Mozambique secured a significant technical assistance contract with the government of mozambique, set to begin in 2025, aiming to improve 8,400 homes. In türkiye, Build Change exceeded its homeowner advice target, reaching 500 people, established a resilience beacon in hatay via local partners, and completed over 200 house evaluations using bctap.
$576,737 spent$16,719 earned by the program18% of program spendingGeneral programs: other general supporting activities.
$790,633 spent$30,413 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,163,519.
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 $3.3M to $4.4M (+34%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of BUILD CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Hausler
Founder and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $564k → $3.6M.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 CHANGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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 CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 42% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 76% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
32% of BUILD CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of BUILD CHANGE'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 $4.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BUILD CHANGE is better cushioned than half of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BUILD CHANGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record — $150k federal, $250 state.
- Agency for International Development$150k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $250
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BUILD CHANGE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILD CHANGE: 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 CHANGE?
- BUILD CHANGE (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,926,084 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,026,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUILD CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $14,926,084 in grants to BUILD CHANGE, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILD CHANGE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $8,026,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILD CHANGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing