Iowa · Nonprofit
BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC
BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $541k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Building Direction for Families Inc does
Mission
Bdf is the local iowa community empowerment area and de-categorization project in buchanan, delaware and fayette counties in iowa involving local community members and early care, health and education professionals in collaborative efforts. These state supported initiatives encourage community people to develop strategies to reach six results.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Program service expenses
$643,872 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $643,872.
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 2024 to 2025, from $942k to $734k (−22%).
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 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
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 DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC’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 DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC'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.
Against its field
BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC's revenue fell 46% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC
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 DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC: 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 DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC?
- BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC?
- TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING DIRECTION FOR FAMILIES INC 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.
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 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