Georgia · Nonprofit
LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC
LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,702,449 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($664,900). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $889k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Lifecycle Building Center Inc does
Mission
Strengthening communities though building material reuse
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lifecycle building centers material reuse center provides affordable, reclaimed building materials, with priority given to residents, businesses and nonprofits in low-income communities near lbcs facility in southwest atlanta. Since beginning operations in 2011, lbc has saved 12.9 million pounds of usable building materials from disposal and created $6.1 million in community savings through deep discounts on building materials and 450+ in-kind material grants to 350+ nonprofit organizations. The center is open 5 days per week, tuesday through saturday, and visitors can drop off material donations during business hours. The center houses salvaged materials such as doors, windows, cabinets, hardware, flooring, appliances, plumbing, lighting, lumber, architectural components and more. In 2024, lbc saved over 790,000 pounds of material from disposal and generated over $600,000 in material cost savings. Lbcs 2025 goal is to save 1.1 million pounds of material.
$510,589 spent$352,609 earned by the program50% of program spendingProvide deconstruction svcs to maximize the amt. Of usable bldg materials recovered for reuse as an alternative to demolition. Deconstruction is the practice of disassembling a buildings components so bldg materials can be reused. Deconstruction can also serve as a sustainable career path for at-risk individuals. Between 2016-2020, lbc provided deconstruction training to 60 men transitioning from homelessness and incarceration. In 2023, lbc launched a workforce training program called breaking barriers through deconstruction using an asset-based community development approach with our rebuildatl coalition partners. (see lifecyclebuildingcenter.org/rebuildatl) breaking barriers trains 20 individuals each year in deconstruction, construction, weatherization and energy-efficiency, and connects them with employment. (see vimeo.com/xxx-xx-xxxx)
$393,185 spent38% of program spendingProvide assistance to qualifying nonprofits through in-kind bldg material donations to lower the cost of their construction projects. Lbc has awarded 450+ building material grants to 350+ nfp organizations since 2011. In 2024, lbc awarded over $182,000 in material grants to 54 organizations, with priority given to orgs serving southwest and westside atlanta communities, and nonprofits who are building affordable housing. Grant recipients include atlanta beltline partnership, atlanta land trust, big brothers big sisters of metro atlanta, boys & girls club, food well alliance, georgia trust for historic preservation, grove park foundation, habitat for humanity, hollis innovation academy, homeaid atlanta, hosea feed the hungry, nicholas house, partnership for southern equity, rebuilding together atl, southface institute, the stonehaven school, trees atlanta, united way, west atl watershed alliance and westside future fund.
$120,181 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,023,955.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.4M (+54%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 13% · 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 3% · 2023 26% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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
Shannon Goodman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $74k → $584k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 61% · 2020 48% · 2021 28% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% — 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
48% of LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
59% of LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$250k
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 LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER 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 LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC?
- LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,702,449 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($664,900). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,702,449 in grants to LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC?
- The Kendeda Fund is the largest funder on record, with $664,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 38 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