New York · Nonprofit
BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC
BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC (New York) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,922,026 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($925,328). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 120
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Building Homes for Heroes Inc does
Mission
Building homes for heroes is determined and devoted to bringing renewed hope to our nation's injured veterans, first responders and their families. The organization builds or modifies homes, and gifts them, mortgage-free, to injured veterans, first responders and their families, while providing support services to enable them to build better and brighter lives and reach new heights. It's truly an honor to serve the men and women who have courageously served and sacrificed for our country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Home award program: building homes for heroes constructs, gifts, modifies, and beautifies homes for injured veterans and their families, including gold star families and first responders all across the country. In addition, we provide a growing amount of support services to help them build better and brighter lives and reach new heights they may have never imagined before. These mortgage-free homes not only help to remove the family's financial burden, but they also help to restore the individual's freedom and enable the veteran to lead a more independent and productive civilian life. These homes are constructed, customized and beautified to meet the needs of physically or psychologically disabled veterans and their families, to help improve their day-to-day quality of life and lead to a hopeful and promising future ahead. On average, the organization reached the extraordinary achievement of more than one home every 11 days for a thirteenth consecutive year in 2025. The organization plans to reach 50+500+5000 in 2026: a record 50 homes in 2026, and nearly one per week, including our milestone 500th home by christmas day, while supporting 5,000 heroes in one year alone. We've found…
$15,475,236 spentof which $12,539,542 as grants90% of program spendingPhysical health, mental and financial wellness: building homes for heroes goes well above and beyond to support our veterans and our first responders by providing a fundamental basis for family connectivity, hope and healing, camaraderie, communication and promise towards their physical health and mental well-being. One major aspect of this in 2025 was our growing programs to help with physical health and mental wellness. Ranging from traditional to innovative support, we were able to support more than 5,000 heroes in 2025 alone. To accomplish this, we sponsored hundreds of workshops and retreats across the country that trained veterans and first responders with essential skills that aim to improve their everyday well-being, their mental health and everyday health, their physical fitness, and their quality of life. We have supported veterans climbing the world's tallest mountains, and winning medals in the warrior games, invictus games and international competitions. One of our biggest events we hosted in 2025 was our 7th team building event, bringing together hundreds of our veteran home recipients and their family members for four days and three nights of family fun, friendly…
$1,349,172 spentof which $1,105,003 as grants8% of program spendingAthletics + academics, emergency funding and financial support programs: our goal is to always empower our veterans and their families, so they survive and thrive ahead. Our emergency funding program enables us to support veterans and first responders through difficult periods and sudden, life-altering moments. These moments can include, but are not limited to, their struggles, an illness, the loss of a job, or a major repair needed by disastrous weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding. This program helps prevent life-altering foreclosures and the devastating risk of homelessness for veterans and their families, while also providing immediate support to those who are already experiencing homelessness or standing on the brink of it. Another major way we help veterans improve their financial well-being is by providing financial guidance to maintain home expenses and maintain their homes, and to plan a successful financial future ahead. To achieve that end, we offer partnerships with certified financial professionals to assist them through their finances and help veterans and their families focus on living a promising and productive life, while also learning about…
$356,921 spentof which $277,597 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,181,329.
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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $21M (+29%).
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 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 12% · 2022 15% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Andrew Pujol
CEO & chairman of the boar
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $265k → $934k.
18 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 HOMES FOR HEROES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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 HOMES FOR HEROES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 HOMES FOR HEROES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 24% · 2019 25% · 2020 16% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 HOMES FOR HEROES INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 HOMES FOR HEROES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $3.2M
- CONSULTING SERVICES - GENERAL $681
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Service to Summit LLC · disregarded
- 4584 Austin Blvd LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC?
- BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC (New York) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,922,026 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($925,328). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $6,922,026 in grants to BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $925,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 120 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