Washington · Nonprofit
BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES
BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,136 to it, the largest being MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY ($100,136). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Building Opportunities for Learning the Trades does
Mission
To support and elevate programs that provide building-related education and provide opportunities to individuals pursuing careers in the building industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Providing scholarships or other support to pierce county students who are pursuing a two-year, four-year, or certification in a course of study related to the homebuilding industry.
$14,692 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,692.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $59k to $109k (+85%).
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.
100% of BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Gretchen Gutierrez
Executive director
Board chair
Jason Rasmus
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES’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 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES's grant income comes from Washington 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 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES's revenue fell 95% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES: 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 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES?
- BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,136 to it, the largest being MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY ($100,136). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $105,136 in grants to BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES?
- MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $100,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING THE TRADES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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