Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE
HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,262,168 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($31,285,360). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Home Builders Institute does
Mission
We change lives by educating, inspiring, and preparing individuals for careers in the building industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Job corpsunder a federal award with the u.s. Department of labor, hbi provides at-risk youth with real life, hands-on vocational training through the job corps program.
$22,915,591 spent58% of program spendingWorkforce training & employmenthbi provides vocational instruction and life-changing opportunities through a variety of other programs including:- military programs: funded by the home depot foundation, hbi serves transitioning service members on or near 10 military installations- community & corrections: local partnerships and training opportunities for justice-involved individuals, veterans and their families- buildstrong academies: open to the public and free to all students, hbi has seven academies in key markets throughout the united states, including the most recent academy in san juan, puerto rico.
$14,420,124 spent37% of program spendingFuture builders of america hbi licenses its proprietary pre-apprenticeship curriculum to schools and other institutions around the country. This curriculum provides a framework and toolkit for teaching residential construction skills for all types of learners. During the year ended 2024, hbi had more than 21,000 students enrolled across all programs and issued nearly 17,000 pre apprenticeship certificates.
$1,722,142 spentof which $404,800 as grants4% of program spendingOther programs
$162,084 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,219,941.
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 2023 to 2024, from $18M to $24M (+30%).
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 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 85% · 2020 83% · 2021 85% · 2022 75% · 2023 70% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Edward Brady
President and CEO
Board chair
Pamela Patenaude
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $90k → $4.7M.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Housing Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE’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
HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 78% · 2022 92% · 2023 73% — 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
33% of HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE'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
HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493k 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
HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245.0M on record — $239.6M federal, $5.4M state.
- Department of Labor$239.6M
- FL$5.0M
- NJ$331k
- MA$10k
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 HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE?
- HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,262,168 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($31,285,360). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $36,262,168 in grants to HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE?
- THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund is the largest funder on record, with $31,285,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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