Utah · Nonprofit
BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA
BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,013 to it, the largest being ANDREW & RACHEL SKEEN FOUNDATION ($310,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $353k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Building Blocks in Africa does
Mission
Charitable. Creating opportunities in education and leadership to locals in ghana and kenya. We partner with school leaders to build structures and provide capital for sustainability projects. The end goal is for these projects to help the schools become completely self-sustaining.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spring of hope school for girls - construction is underway on this secondary school in rural kenya - hoping to open in january 2026. The funds were used to pay for building of classroom block, abolution block. Science block. Only local supplies used. 30+ jobs created for locals to construct the school. Once open, the school will provide a safe place to educate girls in the area who may otherwise be forced into child marriage. Estimated 20+ students in the first year, 5 - 10 staff.
$61,593 spent82% of program spendingEducation sponsorship - funds provided for secondary and/or technical education of students in kenya and ghana.
$13,482 spent18% of program spendingAll other programs include education community garden, school community outreach, spring hope for girls school, and water tower.
$205 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,280.
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 2021 to 2022, from $99k to $170k (+72%).
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 BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $45k → $85k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA’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
BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 88% — 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
33% of BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
100% of BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA has grown faster than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
20%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA?
- BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,013 to it, the largest being ANDREW & RACHEL SKEEN FOUNDATION ($310,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $353,013 in grants to BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA?
- ANDREW & RACHEL SKEEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING BLOCKS IN AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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