Oregon · Nonprofit
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,481,736 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($2,876,854). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Family Building Blocks Inc does
Mission
Family building blocks mission is to keep children safe and families together.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Family building blocks prevents child abuse and neglect by supporting parents of young children in establishing a positive, nurturing family in which children can thrive. Therapeutic classrooms, home visiting, and family mental health services reduce the amount of stress families experience and support healthy child development and healing from trauma.
$10,736,534 spentof which $16,730 as grants$83,834 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,736,534.
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 $11M to $14M (+23%).
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 64% · 2018 51% · 2019 58% · 2020 64% · 2021 68% · 2022 75% · 2023 70% · 2024 72% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Patrice Altenhofen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $564k → $723k.
14 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
66% 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 FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 19% · 2019 28% · 2020 23% · 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
51% of FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.6M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.3M on record — $9.3M federal, $34.0M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$29.2M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$3.5M
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$424k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$412k
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$323k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$124k
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 FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Family Building Blocks Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS 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 FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC?
- FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,481,736 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($2,876,854). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $9,481,736 in grants to FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC?
- THE SALEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,876,854 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 82 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