Skip to content

Missouri · Nonprofit

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,744 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($227,244). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$627k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$338k
Net assets
$546k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What National Institute for Construction Excellence does

Mission

Stimulate interest in the construction trades by sponsoring related education and learning experiences.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The National Institute for Construction Excellence (nice) was established by members of the kansas city design and construction industry to introduce young people, parents and educators to the broad array of career opportunities available in the fields of engineering, architecture, construction management and the skilled trades. Nice is a 501(c)(3), not- for-profit organization. The primary programs offered through nice are: crayons to cad middle school design project, high school cad competition, seniors' days, educators' days and ibuild showcase. Programs are based on contextual learning theory, which states that people learn best in a concrete manner involving personal participation, physical or hands-on activities, and opportunities for personal discovery. Through these programs, students learn why they are studying math, science, technology and communications, and how this knowledge will be applied in their future life experiences. Programs were developed to build alliances between the construction industry and the education community to create a new pathway to many previously overlooked high paying career options.

    $258,096 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $258,096.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($222k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 120 ($277k) Expenses 110 ($243k) Net assets 170 ($69k)2019 Revenue 142 ($328k) Expenses 119 ($265k) Net assets 324 ($132k)2020 Revenue 95 ($220k) Expenses 94 ($210k) Net assets 304 ($124k)2021 Revenue 107 ($247k) Expenses 134 ($298k) Net assets 177 ($72k)2022 Revenue 159 ($368k) Expenses 132 ($293k) Net assets 418 ($171k)2023 Revenue 186 ($429k) Expenses 159 ($352k) Net assets 610 ($249k)2024 Revenue 271 ($627k) Expenses 149 ($330k) Net assets 1336 ($546k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (271)Expenses (149)Net assets (1336)Peer revenue range

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 $250k to $546k (+118%).

$41k
$69k
$134k
$149k
$119k
$171k
$250k
$546k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 8% · 2023 2% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$34k
’18
$63k
’19
$11k
’20
−$52k
’21
$75k
’22
$77k
’23
$297k
’24
18
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed2120202223191918
Joined·+7+0+14+5+4+0+0
No longer listed·80124801
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $10k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE’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

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 46% · 2020 58% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

14% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

99% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MN
MO
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE?
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,744 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($227,244). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $337,744 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE?
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $227,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds National Institute for Construction Excellence →

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 9 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