Virginia · Nonprofit
BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION
BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,223,562 to it, the largest being OAKWOOD FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,245,210). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Building Goodness Foundation does
Mission
To build community and improve lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Building Goodness Foundation is a u.s. Based construction nonprofit offering construction services in underdeveloped communities in central america and the caribbean. We believe that well designed, well-built, beautiful buildings create opportunities for children, families and communities. Bgf constructs buildings that promote health and literacy, stimulate economic development, and help end the cycles of poverty.since 1999 bgf has built 37 medical clinics, schools, water/sanitation systems, and community centers in central america, as well as over 1,200 homes in haiti, nicaragua, honduras, guatemala, el salvador, liberia, and costa rica. An estimated 200,000 people use bgf buildings internationally every year. Bgf works with volunteers and companies from the construction industry - architects, engineers, project managers and tradespeople - to deliver beautiful, high-quality structures that both increase our partner's capacity and generate opportunities for those who use them. Through this model of partnership with generous companies and volunteers who donate their time and expertise, bgf projects are completed at a fraction of the cost, and volunteers have the opportunity to use…
$764,894 spent$6,300 earned by the program64% of program spendingBgf provides building repairs and renovations in our community, with a focus on supporting increased access to essential services, the local economy, and racial equity. These projects increase access to services such as health, education and recreation, and support local businesses. Additionally, every year we complete home repair projects for low income homeowners in the charlottesville area, supporting safe and affordable housing. We have completed repair projects on over 190 homes to date. Bgf repairs homes of the sick and elderly, and renovates spaces for organizations serving disadvantaged community members.
$423,502 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,188,396.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.2M to $2.7M (+24%).
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 18% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Courtney Polk
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $378k.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 GOODNESS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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 GOODNESS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 GOODNESS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 80% · 2019 25% · 2020 53% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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
47% of BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 GOODNESS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Bgf Carlton LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: 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 GOODNESS FOUNDATION?
- BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,223,562 to it, the largest being OAKWOOD FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,245,210). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $5,223,562 in grants to BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION?
- OAKWOOD FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,245,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 50 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