Colorado · Nonprofit
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC (Colorado) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,292,949 to it, the largest being BECHTEL GROUP FOUNDATION ($4,480,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Engineers Without Borders-Usa Inc does
Mission
Partner with communities and develop leaders to build a better world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International community program (icp) collaborated on 276 active projects and 57 completed projects in 33 countries in 2025. These projects are driven by 202 ewb usa chapters, comprised of 11,007 volunteers, based in the united states partnering directly with communities around the world to meet their self-identified needs. Technical assistance is focused on six project types: water, civil works, sanitation, agriculture, energy & structures. Ewb-usa's commitment to our hundreds of partnering communities is founded upon the premise that community-driven projects result in long lasting and sustainable infrastructure solutions. Throughout this partnership, we bring together volunteers and community members of all backgrounds and experience levels to promote educational and leadership opportunities not typically provided in traditional academic settings. Completed projects directly impacted 1,341,175 community members.
$5,465,643 spentof which $753,966 as grants$192,537 earned by the program75% of program spendingCommunity engineering corps (cecorps) brings underserved communities and volunteer engineers together to advance local infrastructure solutions in the united states. Volunteers work with community associations, nonprofits and municipalities in both rural and urban areas. These individuals volunteer their time and expertise to assist communities that do not have the resources to access engineering services. With a strong commitment to community-driven projects, volunteers work alongside community members to design solutions to identified problems. In 2025, the program transitioned from a three-organization alliance (between awwa, asce and ewb-usa) to a program fully owned and operated by ewb-usa. During 2025, over 650 volunteers worked on more than 125 active projects impacting communities in 38 us states and territories. Completed projects directly impacted 144,169 community members.
$1,138,542 spentof which $120,935 as grants16% of program spendingVolunteer engagement team (vet) supports 11,007 volunteers in 202 chapters including 147 student chapters and 55 professional chapters. Vet utilizes the skills and experience of a diverse pool of student and professional volunteers to implement engineering projects and consulting services. Our highly skilled volunteers work with communities to find appropriate solutions for their infrastructure needs. During 2025, a volunteer leadership development framework was created that defines a basic growth trajectory along which ewb-usa intentionally develops its volunteers.
$700,347 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,304,532.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.5M to $10M (+62%).
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 3% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 15% · 2022 16% · 2023 3% · 2024 11% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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
Boris Martin
CEO/secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.2M.
32 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 funders by total. 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
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
62% 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 ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 32% · 2019 59% · 2020 34% · 2021 24% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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
32% of ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.4M
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 ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA 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 ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC?
- ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC (Colorado) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,292,949 to it, the largest being BECHTEL GROUP FOUNDATION ($4,480,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $22,292,949 in grants to ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC?
- BECHTEL GROUP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,480,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 118 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