Missouri · Nonprofit
BUILDING ON DIRECTION
BUILDING ON DIRECTION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,600 to it, the largest being REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ($9,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $415k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Building on Direction does
Mission
Building on Directions mission is to empower children and families in the st louis area through meeting their direct necessities, then providing them with resources to begin their journey of self sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Building on Directions mission is to empower children and families in the st louis area through meeting their direct necessities, then providing them with resources to begin their journey of self sufficiency.
$192,422 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2025 to 2026, from $23k to $53k (+129%).
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: 2024 97% · 2025 98% · 2026 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BUILDING ON DIRECTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 ON DIRECTION’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 ON DIRECTION's grant income comes from Missouri 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 ON DIRECTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like BUILDING ON DIRECTION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
5%
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 ON DIRECTION: 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 ON DIRECTION?
- BUILDING ON DIRECTION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,600 to it, the largest being REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ($9,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING ON DIRECTION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,600 in grants to BUILDING ON DIRECTION.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING ON DIRECTION?
- REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $9,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING ON DIRECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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