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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,563,451 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($3,720,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Community Development Corporation of Brownsville Dba Come Dream Come Build does
Mission
Cdcb's mission is to assist low income residents to improve their financial security through financial education, ged education, job training, and the production, finance, and management of affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To assist low-income families in attaining or preserving home ownership or affordable rental housing through housing counseling, affordable rents, below market financing, construction and use of the home designs and target outreach. Built and/or financed 32 single family homes for home ownership, assisted 137 families with rental assistance, and developed 40 permanent supportive housing units. Assisted 747 families with first time home ownership counseling visits, making 181 families home buyer ready, conducted 41 financial education classes.
$11,639,661 spentof which $1,538,909 as grants$6,815,606 earned by the program92% of program spendingThe youthbuild program seeks to line job training education enhancement and affordable housing production by working with drop-out youths from low income families between the ages of 16 and 24. Cdcb youthbuild provides a range of support services, including child care, along with a training stipend. A major focus is to provide work opportunities in the participant's own neighborhood.youthbuild enrolled 35 students, 34 students passed the ged, 35 gained their nccer and osha certificate, and 27 students went to work or higher education. 26 gained nims cnc certification & 32 obtained nccer welding certifications.
$1,010,980 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,650,641.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $75M to $98M (+31%).
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: 2017 47% · 2018 32% · 2019 40% · 2020 37% · 2021 43% · 2022 48% · 2023 22% · 2024 18% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Charles N Mitchell Bennett
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Nathan Burkhart
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $650k → $3.3M.
3 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD’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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 65% · 2019 86% · 2020 63% · 2021 44% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.6M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$3.4M
- Department of Labor$3.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Rgv Casitas Inc · disregarded
- Every Step Counts · disregarded
- Los Olmos LP · partnership
- Casitas Lantana LP · partnership
- Casitas Azucar LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD?
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,563,451 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($3,720,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $21,563,451 in grants to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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