Iowa · Nonprofit
BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY
BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90,500 to it, the largest being TODD AND MARY HEISTAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $425k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $761k
What Building Blocks Academy does
Mission
Provide early childhood development and childcare services to the public. Further its educational purpose by providing childcare so individuals in the community may maintain gainful employment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide early childhood development childcare services.
$252,806 spent$253,934 earned by the program88% of program spendingDepreciation on building/equipment of daycare facility
$35,402 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,208.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $949k to $1.0M (+10%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 44% · 2023 9% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $202k on record — $50k federal, $152k state.
- Department of Agriculture$50k
- DE$150k
- NJ$2k
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 BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY: 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 BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY?
- BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90,500 to it, the largest being TODD AND MARY HEISTAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $90,500 in grants to BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY?
- TODD AND MARY HEISTAND FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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