Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,432,487 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ($4,947,048). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $41M
What The Community Builders Inc does
Mission
The mission of the community builders, inc. Is to build strong communities where people of all incomes can achieve their full potential. We do this by developing, financing, and operating high quality affordable, mixed-income housing, by coordinating access to support services, and by planning and implementing other community and economic initiatives critical to the communities we serve. We focus primarily on meeting the needs of lower income people not effectively served by market forces. We favor a multi-disciplinary approach and engagements of significant scale that can have a lasting impact. We specialize in large-scale public and assisted housing redevelopment projects, transforming distressed housing projects into anchors for multifaceted revitalization efforts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The primary purpose of the corporation is to foster low- and moderate-income housing ("affordable housing") by acquiring, owning,developing, constructing, sponsoring, managing, improving (through rehabiliation, new construction or otherwise) and making available rental and homeownership housing at an affordable cost to low- and moderate-income families and persons without discrimination on any basis that is prohibited under the constitution of the united states, and to stimulate, by example or otherwise, the renovation and improvement of properties, and generally to promote neighborhood improvement for the benefit of persons and families of low- and moderate-income, and for elderly, disabled, and other disadvantaged persons who desire to live and raise their families in safe, sanitary and attractive homes and neighborhoods, and to undertake such other programs related thereto as are consistent with the status of the corporation as an exclusively charitable organization, including thefollowing activities and programs:1)to research, discover and develop methods of financing, home improvement, rehabilitation and new construction which may be of assistance to low- and moderate- income…
$95,195,419 spent$88,078,528 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $95,195,419.
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 2023 to 2024, from $193M to $240M (+25%).
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 3% · 2018 20% · 2019 9% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Bartholomew J Mitchell Iii
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $3.0M.
15 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Woodbourne Community Housing Corporation % the Community Builders Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% 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 THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 44% · 2019 46% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 65% — 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
26% of THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
57% of THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $774k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 35 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 35 housing & shelter nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36.5M on record — $36.5M federal, $1k state.
- Department of the Treasury$36.5M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$1k
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 THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 542 related entities
- 127 Amory Street Landlord LLC · disregarded
- 127 Amory Street LLC · disregarded
- 127 Amory Street Mm LLC · disregarded
- 239 Pleasant Street Mm LLC · disregarded
- 35 Village Hill Road LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC?
- THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,432,487 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ($4,947,048). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $14,432,487 in grants to THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC?
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,947,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 78 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