New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC
CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,700 to it, the largest being Good Ventures Foundation ($437,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- AGC Construction Advocacy Fundportfolio match
- Associated General Contractors of America Incportfolio match
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.
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 CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $63k → $480k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA 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
CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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
CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- AGC Construction Advocacy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated General Contractors of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Institute of Architectsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Gaming Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Utility Workers Union of America Uwuaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Buildersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Motion Picture Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Housing Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Consumer Brands Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen M Silberstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated Builders and Contractors Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$38k
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 CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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 CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC?
- CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,700 to it, the largest being Good Ventures Foundation ($437,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $682,700 in grants to CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC?
- Good Ventures Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $437,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR BUILDING IN NORTH AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing