Ohio · Nonprofit
BUILDING FOR TOMORROW
BUILDING FOR TOMORROW (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,522,164 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,181,324). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $576k
What Building for Tomorrow does
Mission
Building for Tomorrow (bft) supports services to residents of akron metropolitan housing authority and other low-income residents in the community that promote stability, education and economic independence as a means of strengthening the greater community - this mission aligns with the goals and mission of amha. Bft provides residents of amha with tools to reach their potential and move beyond assisted living. We focus on educational success, economic self-sufficiency and independent living. Bft strives to create a supportive sense of community where residents, no matter their stage in life, are given the power to realize and obtain a brighter future.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Reach opportunity center: the reach opportunity center is an educational facility for all residents of the summit lake neighborhood. The center helps families to rise above poverty by providing a comprehensive system of education, training, support and resources that are keys to improving personal opportunities and achieving self-sufficiency. Programs and services are designed to strengthen the whole family and support summit education initiative's cradle to career alliance by:-preparing children for kindergarten-ensuring children are reading at proficiency by 3rd grade-delivering adult learning and job readiness services
$227,698 spent$279,469 earned by the program21% of program spendingEarly childhood initiative: early childhood initiative (eci) operates under the premise that investments in early care and education deliver economic returns and provide a foundation for success later in life. Eci's unique design maximizes scarce resources to provide programs that address children's developmental needs and support families. Through home visitation, family outreach events, and maternal depression services, amha has found an effective and efficient way to provide high quality care and education to a very hard-to-reach population. Eci strives to empower parents/caregivers to be their child's first and most important teacher by building trusting relationships. Eci's trained professionals work directly with vulnerable families and also connect children and adults to community resources in order to provide a continuum of care.
$501,689 spent$905,312 earned by the program47% of program spendingSpark (supporting partnerships to assure ready kids), a component of the early childhood initiative, is a family-focused kindergarten-readiness home visitation program designed to prepare children ages 3 and 4 for kindergarten by helping families in structured lessons and activities aligned with ohio's early learning and development standards, administers developmental assessments and screenings, and initiatives referrals to needed community resources.
$348,362 spent$297,535 earned by the program32% of program spendingCommunity support program: through community support program, the organization's main focus is on offering youth summer camp opportunities with our community partners. Covid-19 action fund: the action fund was created to address the pandemic and its affect on our communities' vulnerable populations. Contributions to the covid-19 action fund went directly towards addressing hardships caused by covid-19. Although the situation is changing daily, our greatest needs were for rental assistance, utility assistance, and connectivity assistance. Connecthome is a project of amha and its non-profit arm, building for tommorow. This initiative is committed to closing the digital divide by providing digital equity and access for all. Through partnerships with local agencies, internet service providers, and device providers, connecthome connects amha residents to three different areas of connectivity: 1. Affordable internet; 2. Access to devices; and 3. Digital literacy. Choice neighborhoods: gar foundation, knight foundation, huntington foundation, and the akron civic commons (acc) committed $25,000 each to support amha's fy2020 choice neighborhoods planning grant. The gar foundation money was…
$0 spent$79,268 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,077,749.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $707k to $1.2M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BUILDING FOR TOMORROW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $442k → $264k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FOR TOMORROW’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 FOR TOMORROW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 FOR TOMORROW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2020 45% · 2021 66% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% — 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
58% of BUILDING FOR TOMORROW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
63% of BUILDING FOR TOMORROW's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FOR TOMORROW runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BUILDING FOR TOMORROW
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILDING FOR TOMORROW?
- BUILDING FOR TOMORROW (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,522,164 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,181,324). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING FOR TOMORROW have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,522,164 in grants to BUILDING FOR TOMORROW, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING FOR TOMORROW?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,181,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING FOR TOMORROW 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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