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BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC

BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,778,088 to it, the largest being FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT ($1,681,979). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.0M
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$2.8M
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 104 ($8.0M) Expenses 103 ($8.1M) Net assets 93 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 99 ($7.7M) Expenses 105 ($8.3M) Net assets 80 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 69 ($5.3M) Expenses 68 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 79 ($6.1M) Expenses 74 ($5.8M) Net assets 104 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 101 ($7.9M) Expenses 96 ($7.6M) Net assets 51 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 81 ($6.3M) Expenses 85 ($6.7M) Net assets 48 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 91 ($7.0M) Expenses 87 ($6.9M) Net assets 58 ($2.0M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (91)Expenses (87)Net assets (58)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$147k
’17
−$98k
’18
−$606k
’19
−$8k
’20
$256k
’21
$262k
’22
−$455k
’23
$182k
’24
4.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $300k → $356k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
2
2
3
2
3
2

From the IRS filings of BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

61%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 70% · 2019 54% · 2020 52% · 2021 64% · 2022 70% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc86%Building Industry Association of San Diego84%San Diego Regional Chamber Foundation83%Associated Builders and Contractors of San Diego Inc82%California Business Properties Association82%Long Beach Community Action Partnership82%Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce82%Environment California Inc82%

Nationally

Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc86%Building Industry Association of San Diego84%Southeastern Idaho Community Action Agency Inc84%Brazos Valley Community Action Agency Inc84%Green Building Alliance83%Society of Actuaries Research Institute83%San Diego Regional Chamber Foundation83%Builders Network Inc82%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 35%Fundraising 4%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Alliance for Quality Construction · exempt
  • Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC?
BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,778,088 to it, the largest being FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT ($1,681,979). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,778,088 in grants to BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC?
FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,681,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing