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Oregon · Nonprofit
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE (Oregon) is funded by 15 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $5,584,839 in grants to it, the largest being Breakthrough Energy Foundation ($1,245,700). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 2,015 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,015 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
30% of NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 1 funders to 5 as grant income moved $200k → $690k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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.
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 96% · 2021 34% · 2022 30% · 2023 59% · 2024 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
45% of NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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.
NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
86% of spending goes to programs.
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 5 states
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 15funders 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. view filing