Illinois · Nonprofit
BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE
BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,865,803 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($880,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $592k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $27k
What Business Services Collective Nfp Dba Builders Avenue does
Mission
Our mission is to cultivate the financial health of diverse businesses in the construction industry through comprehensive coaching and training, and back-office support from local service providers. We take an innovative and holistic approach to help entrepreneurs strategically plan, effectively manage, and fund their growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Construction business coaching: provided 2,300 hours of training and financial health guidance to more than 90 minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises within the construction industry supporting more than $18 million in business activity. Helped business owners get loan ready and access $1.9 million in capital.
$441,057 spentof which $18,983 as grants61% of program spendingCooperative: launched initiative to support the creation of a shared services cooperative for minority-owned and women-owned construction businesses to access vital back office services at affordable prices to increase business resiliency, growth, and hiring. 2024 programming included formation of leadership circle of founding members, creating mission, vision, values and draft operating model. Cooperative projected to launch in 2026.
$173,102 spent24% of program spendingYouth apprenticeship: trained 12 workforce candidates in construction project management, construction cost estimating and bid packaging. Workforce candidates partnered with minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises within the construction industry to provide 765 hours of entry-level staffing support through on the job experience to partnered businesses.
$111,621 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $725,780.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $489k to $155k (−68%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Deon Lucas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $45k → $495k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE’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
BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 47% — 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
59% of BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $880k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE: 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 BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE?
- BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,865,803 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($880,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,865,803 in grants to BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $880,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2024), 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