Minnesota · Nonprofit
BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC
BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,124 to it, the largest being ANDERSEN CORPORATE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $455k
What Building Strong Communities Inc does
Mission
Building strong communities program is a multi-trade, apprenticeship preparatory program that prepares individuals for a career in the construction industry. This program offers opportunities to receive union endorsed training, exposure and a "foot in the door" to a career in the trades. Program graduates will have an opportunity to interview with participating construction trade unions and contractors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
"pathways to placement" program was implemented during 2024 which is a series of weekly workshops for participants to assist them in their career search. Designed to keep graduates engaged in their search for a career in the construction industry, the program provides the participants engaged with one-on-one mentoring including mock interviews, individual tools for the search, application, and interview process.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The building strong communities program is a multi-trade, apprenticeship preparatory program that prepares individuals for a career in the construction industry. This program offers opportunities to receive union endorsed training, exposure and a "foot in the door" to a career in the trades. Program graduates will have an opportunity to interview with participating construction trade unions and contractors. Statistics for 2024: 126 enrollees, and 105 of those individuals graduated from the program.
$1,023,459 spent$60,747 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,023,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $390k to $621k (+59%).
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: 2022 4% · 2023 38% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Rick Martagon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $536k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota). These are real filings, and they are not money BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES 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 STRONG COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 STRONG COMMUNITIES INC.
“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 STRONG COMMUNITIES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota 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 STRONG COMMUNITIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC?
- BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,124 to it, the largest being ANDERSEN CORPORATE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $105,124 in grants to BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC?
- ANDERSEN CORPORATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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