Oregon · Nonprofit
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,235,693 to it, the largest being Sea Change Foundation ($1,175,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What New Buildings Institute does
Mission
We advance best practices, codes, and policies through market leadership, research, guidance, and technical advocacy toward a built environment that equitably delivers community benefits and climate solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Codes and policies: energy codes continue to be a crucial lever in transforming markets for high performance buildings. Nbi's work in this program area included strengthening model building energy codes and increasing their use and usefulness. We also worked on developing the necessary thought leadership to overcome critical issues that are hindering code advancement and create the technical basis for progressive code and policy approaches such as decarbonized and stretch codes, as well as building performance standards. Nbi worked directly with leading local jurisdictions to implement these advanced code and policy strategies as well as to develop code and policy roadmaps.continued on schedule onbi also worked to support the expansion of codes and policy development to take a more holistic view of climate, focusing increasingly on carbon neutrality, health, and resilience. Several jurisdictions are developing zero energy and zero carbon roadmaps that set objectives for each code cycle, moving stringency along a path to ultimately reach these performance levels. Nbi worked successfully at the national level on model codes and standards and in several states and cities, including…
$3,013,639 spent$3,066,405 earned by the program42% of program spendingLeadership and market development:nbi's research, convenings, education, and thought leadership on "getting to zero" focuses on driving scale in building decarbonization including energy efficiency improvements. During the 2023-2024 fiscal year, nbi broadened its market development and ongoing engagement with critical market audiences through collaboration and partnership with professionals in the building industry. Nbi's research offers proof and provides examples to show that net zero energy performance goals are achievable. Successes and lessons learned are shared with designers and owners through energy efficiency affordability and reliability programs.continued on schedule oa specification that nbi developed is being used by a pace financing firm as a pathway for developers to use in their projects. Nbi hosted several public-facing awareness buildings events including webinars that touched thousands of people and social media campaigns that garnered over a million impressions on social media. These efforts will help build industry capability to deliver on the upcoming policies calling for affordability, reliability, and security in buildings.
$1,441,623 spent$780,987 earned by the program20% of program spendingBuilding innovation:nbi's building innovation program focuses on technical research and analysis to advance emerging technology and best practices for accelerating building energy performance, affordability, and reliability. This work advances programs and practices seeking to enhance energy efficiency, affordability, and reliability outcomes in the built environment and develops tools and guidance to provide critical support for building owners, practitioners, utilities, governments, and others. Examples of activities include building science research, emerging technology demonstration and validation, best practices guidance, technical tools, and thought leadership. Continued on schedule okey initiatives under this program area include the advanced water heating initiative, focused on heat pump water heater market transformation, and the gridoptimal buildings initiative, focused on building-grid integration. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, nbi collaborated with hundreds of companies and organizations to support these initiatives.
$2,637,378 spent$3,188,113 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,092,640.
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 $3.0M to $5.2M (+71%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Susan Stratton
Interim CEO from 9/2024 to 2/2025
Board chair
Patrick O'Shei
Governance chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $785k → $1.0M.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 NEW BUILDINGS 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
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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 NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 96% · 2021 40% · 2022 28% · 2023 59% — 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
38% of NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.7M on record — $15.6M federal, $31k state.
- Department of Energy$15.6M
- OR$25k
- VT$6k
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 NEW BUILDINGS 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE?
- NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,235,693 to it, the largest being Sea Change Foundation ($1,175,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $7,235,693 in grants to NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE?
- Sea Change Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE 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.
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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 22 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