Minnesota · Nonprofit
BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM
BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,632 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($320,512). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $483k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $266k
What Building Blocks of Islam does
Mission
Buiding blocks offers a platform for concerned muslims to work together for the advancement of the communitys welfare through the provision of religious, educational, and social services to build bridges of mutual understanding with other communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
As a community-building organization, building blocks engages people in working together to address needs, find solutions, and improve lives. Our mission is driven by islamic principles on charity and social responsibility and each individual is viewed as a building block that reinforces the community. Building blocks emergency assistance program has been a source of hope and relief. We have helped several families avoid eviction, move from shelters into a home of their own, keep their utilities on, or buy essential groceries.building blocks food shelf program provides much needed sustenance to a large number of families each month (special distributions during the month of ramadan put food on the table for a significant number of families as well). At a time when questions abound about islam, building blocks has bolstered efforts to educate, reach out, and build bridges of understanding with other communities.
$254,802 spent$482,908 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,802.
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 $398k to $192k (−52%).
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 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $72k.
9 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 OF ISLAM’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 OF ISLAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 47% · 2021 62% · 2022 77% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
88% of BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM'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 $63k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $459k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 OF ISLAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,843 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,843 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM
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 Minnesota
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
91%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM: 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 OF ISLAM?
- BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,632 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($320,512). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $521,632 in grants to BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $320,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 13 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