Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Building Talent Foundation
Building Talent Foundation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,181,000 to it, the largest being MERITAGE CARES FOUNDATION ($705,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Building Talent Foundation does
Mission
To advance the education, training, and career progression of young people and people from underrepresented groups, as skilled technical workers and as business owners in residential construction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building Talent Pipeline - The Foundation engages with young people, in schools and in communities, to encourage their interest and exploration of careers in residential construction. The Foundation supports schools and training providers to align their construction curricula with employers' demand for skills. The Foundation aims to significantly increase the number of students enrolling in construction programs, by raising their awareness of the exciting opportunities the industry offers.
$966,046 spent28% of program spendingBuilding Talent Connections - The Foundation connects employers with job seekers by supporting and strengthening education partnerships where job seekers are and the training programs, tools, and platforms where employers seek new talent. The Foundation's talent connections are geared toward strengthening and scaling employment and business ownership in the industry, while improving collaboration between employers, educators, and jobseekers.
$1,038,818 spent30% of program spendingBuilding Talent Engagement - The Foundation supports the business growth of its trade partners and the industry's workforce by leveraging innovative talent management technology and advancing workplace practices for recruiting, hiring, developing, engaging, and retaining workers in residential construction. The Foundation fosters professional development, entrepreneurship, and career advancement among the industry's workers and business owners.
$942,298 spent27% of program spendingJobs to Build - The Foundation's national, centralized, cloud-based extensible platform, that provides local construction occupational outlook, career pathways, job search, and scholarships and education/training program search for youth, career changers, and job seekers. Through the employer talent pipeline management portal, employers of all sizes are matched with job seekers and students, reducing recruiting costs and increasing retention. This construction industry-serving site aims to become the industry marketplace - a place where builders go to find qualified trade contractors; where trade contractors go in search of project (work) opportunities, materials, and workers; and where talent goes to seek out employment and upskilling opportunities.
$544,983 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,492,145.
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 $3.3M to $2.0M (−40%).
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 Talent Foundation’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. 3 of the last 5 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
Branka Minic
CEO
Board chair
Sheryl Palmer
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $225k → $350k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $460k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Leading Builders of America). These are real filings, and they are not money Building Talent Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Building Talent Foundation’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 Talent Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 Talent Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 56% · 2022 57% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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
Building Talent Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k 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 Talent Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Building Talent Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $652 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $652
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Building Talent Foundation
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Leading Builders of America · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Building Talent Foundation: 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 Talent Foundation?
- Building Talent Foundation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,181,000 to it, the largest being MERITAGE CARES FOUNDATION ($705,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Building Talent Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,181,000 in grants to Building Talent Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Building Talent Foundation?
- MERITAGE CARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Building Talent Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), 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