Texas · Nonprofit
Building Promise USA
Building Promise USA (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,444 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $526k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $393k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Building Promise USA does
Mission
Building Promise USA is a peer-based organization that supports people who are impacted by the carceral system.Through our four main impact areas, we support our clients through peer support services, and connecting them to supportive services that will help them become thriving and contributing members of society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organizations One Stop Shop Initiative has four impact areas Education, Supportive Services, Workforce Development and Housing. The One Stop Shop serviced 384 clients of which 79.4 were connected to resources, 19 were housed and 41 clients received direct cash assistance. Reentry Self-Sustainability Pilot Initiative RESPI engaged 24 clients, 19 clients graduated, 18 clients found employment, 2 clients became self-employed. All program participants received 2,000 in direct cash assistance. Hiring Initiative for Reentry Empowerment HIRE - 3 two day events were held. Twenty employers were engaged and 80 participants were employed or connected with second chance employers. Each participant that attended both days received a laptop. Two hundred laptops were distributed.
$394,349 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $394,349.
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 2022 to 2023, from $75k to $208k (+175%).
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: 2023 58% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Building Promise USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $40k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Promise USA’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 Promise USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Promise USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Building Promise USA's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Promise USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Building Promise USA
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 Texas
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
99%
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 Promise USA: 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 Promise USA?
- Building Promise USA (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,444 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Building Promise USA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $393,444 in grants to Building Promise USA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Building Promise USA?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Building Promise USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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