Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,169 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $14M
What National Institute of Building Sciences does
Mission
The National Institute of Building Sciences is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization that supports advances in building science and technology. Nibs was established by the u.s. Congress in the housing and community development act of 1974, public law 93-383. Congress recognized the need for an organization to serve as an interface between government and the private sector, one that serves as a resource to those that plan, design, procure, construct, use, operate, maintain, renovate, and retire physical facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Contracts and awards (projnet, navfac criteria and other):projnet: project extranet (projnet) is an internet-based service that allows the secure exchange and processing of design and construction information among authorized business partners. Projnet offers a suite of tools to manage owner-related business processes including design reviews, bidder inquiry, requests for information and construction submittals reviews. Projnet facilitates the formal oversight, control, review, management, and secure exchange of complex project documents among and between all project stakeholders.see schedule o for continuation(s).navfac criteria: develop specialized technical criteria for inclusion in building specifications and design manuals.other contracts and awards: nibs provides a wide range of internal and external experts in a variety of areas to serve the needs of its clients and advance the building industry toward realizing high-performance building and communities. Nibs provides the diverse expertise necessary to deliver results. Through the strategic use of expertise in the following areas: integration of cross-discipline expertise, strategy and visioning, subject matter expertise,…
$21,370,158 spent$22,722,547 earned by the program96% of program spendingPublications
$679,946 spent$59,052 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther
$324,637 spent$305,416 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,374,741.
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 $20M to $26M (+29%).
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 2% · 2018 7% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (79% 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
George Guszca
President and CEO
Board chair
Tom Phoenix
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $51k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES’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 OF BUILDING SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES is better cushioned than half of the 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175.5M on record.
- Department of Defense$83.5M
- Department of State$57.4M
- Department of Homeland Security$13.8M
- General Services Administration$9.8M
- Department of Energy$3.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 OF BUILDING SCIENCES: 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,169 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $68,169 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES?
- NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES 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.
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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 4 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