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BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($310,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$231k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$447k
Net assets
$134k
1/12 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Building Relationships Inc does

Mission

Through education and the transformative power of the arts, spill the honey foundation amplifies the historic and contemporary voices of the black- jewish alliance to foster empathy for action and to unite communities in their mission for social change. Spill the honey foundation provides a forum to celebrate and educate on the historic black-jewish alliance of the civil rights movement, to create space for an open dialogue, and to enact a call to action to build a multigenerational cultural offensive against hate.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Using the arts to educate the younger generation about the holocaust and its connection to the civil rights movement. Promotes the prevention of genocide and tolerance of cultural differences.

    $211,067 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $211,067.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($177k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 1198 ($339k) Expenses 51 ($90k) Net assets 2832 ($259k)2019 Revenue 191 ($54k) Expenses 94 ($166k) Net assets 1610 ($147k)2020 Revenue 316 ($89k) Expenses 121 ($215k) Net assets 236 ($22k)2021 Revenue 274 ($78k) Expenses 20 ($36k) Net assets 693 ($63k)2022 Revenue 698 ($198k) Expenses 71 ($126k) Net assets 1472 ($134k)2023 Revenue 1459 ($413k) Expenses 247 ($437k) Net assets 1214 ($111k)2024 Revenue 1401 ($397k) Expenses 215 ($381k) Net assets 1389 ($127k)2025 Revenue 817 ($231k) Expenses 127 ($225k) Net assets 1463 ($134k)
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Revenue (817)Expenses (127)Net assets (1463)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $9k to $259k (+2732%).

$9k
$259k
$147k
$22k
$63k
$134k
$111k
$127k
$134k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$149k
’17
$249k
’18
−$112k
’19
−$125k
’20
$42k
’21
$71k
’22
−$24k
’23
$16k
’24
$7k
’25
7.1
months of
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.

20172018202320242025
Listed44469
Joined·+0·+2+4
No longer listed·0·01
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $210k → $12k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 RELATIONSHIPS INC’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 RELATIONSHIPS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

78% 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 RELATIONSHIPS INC.

69%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 76% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

0% of BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 8% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

78% of BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $98k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states.

MI
NY
MA
CT
CA

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

’19
’21
’22
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS 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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC?
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($310,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $447,450 in grants to BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 12 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