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BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION

BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$434k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$72k
Net assets
$7.0M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Builders Exchange Foundation does

Mission

The Builders Exchange Foundation was established in 1999 as a philanthropic arm of the builders exchange of central ohio. The mission of the foundation is to advance and support the commercial construction industry's education and research activities for the benefit of employers, employees, consumers and the community impacted by the commerical construction industry in central ohio. The foundation is primarily dependent on the support of those closely affiliated with the local commercial construction industry.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation supports student outreach and awards scholarships to worthy college students and universities. In addition, the foundation supported the builders exchange of central ohio by providing grants for professional development and membership materials.

    $309,830 spentof which $182,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $309,830.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($414k) Expenses 100 ($191k) Net assets 100 ($4.8M)2018 Revenue 117 ($484k) Expenses 161 ($308k) Net assets 91 ($4.3M)2019 Revenue 66 ($271k) Expenses 160 ($306k) Net assets 107 ($5.1M)2020 Revenue 94 ($390k) Expenses 129 ($246k) Net assets 119 ($5.6M)2021 Revenue 143 ($593k) Expenses 162 ($309k) Net assets 138 ($6.6M)2022 Revenue 62 ($258k) Expenses 208 ($397k) Net assets 111 ($5.3M)2023 Revenue 118 ($490k) Expenses 202 ($387k) Net assets 128 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 105 ($434k) Expenses 229 ($437k) Net assets 146 ($7.0M)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (229)Net assets (146)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.6M to $5.3M (−20%).

$4.8M
$4.4M
$5.1M
$5.6M
$6.6M
$5.3M
$6.1M
$7.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$223k
’17
$176k
’18
−$34k
’19
$144k
’20
$284k
’21
−$139k
’22
$103k
’23
−$4k
’24

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

Mary Tebeau

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1112121112121211
Joined·+2+1+2+2+2+1+1
No longer listed·1131212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $3k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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: $106k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Builders Exchange of Central Ohio). These are real filings, and they are not money BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION’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

BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

82% 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 BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION.

71%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 83% · 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

82% of BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states.

MI
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Builders Exchange of Central Ohio · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION?
BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $71,500 in grants to BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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