Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,560,388
- Total expenses
- $1,509,873
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,558,377
- Grants paid
- $263,179
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $2,011
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $361,339
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $141,163
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $220,176
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,120,859
- Management and general expenses
- $184,088
- Fundraising expenses
- $204,926
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,120,859
Program services were 74.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,558,377
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $2,011 · excluded $2,011
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $8,321 · program services $8,321
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $254,858 · program services $254,858
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $90,492 · program services $44,341 · management and general $18,098 · fundraising $28,053
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $57,747 · program services $7,507 · management and general $32,338 · fundraising $17,902
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $3,284 · program services $427 · management and general $1,839 · fundraising $1,018
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11b · Fees: legal
total $3,450 · management and general $3,450
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $16,288 · management and general $16,288
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11g · Fees: other
total $681,752 · program services $451,779 · management and general $90,186 · fundraising $139,787
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $421 · fundraising $421
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13 · Office expenses
total $11,919 · program services $3,748 · management and general $6,874 · fundraising $1,297
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14 · Information technology
total $23,092 · program services $18,474 · management and general $4,618
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16 · Occupancy
total $19,219 · program services $12,971 · management and general $6,248
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17 · Travel
total $225,966 · program services $209,518 · fundraising $16,448
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23 · Insurance
total $4,149 · management and general $4,149
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24a · Other expenses: Workshops
total $108,915 · program services $108,915
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24e · All other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $330,561 · end of year $96,123
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $78,944 · end of year $265,216
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $3,666
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$0
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $8,802 · end of year $4,996
-
18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $136,167
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $234,708
-
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0
-
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0
-
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0
-
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $56,287 · end of year $220,176
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $113,374
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
How to Build Up's (Build Up) global core team builds peace around the world by bringing together diverse skills: mediation, negotiation, facilitation, marketing, media, filmmaking, design, coding, data analysis, social media, and graphic recording.
Activities or mission (Part I)
How to Build Up uses digital technologies to build peace around the world.
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In 2023, Build Up continued supporting democratization in the Somali region through the provision of technical assistance, accompaniment and mentoring to the Transitional Puntland Electoral Commission (TPEC) in Puntland, Somalia. Additionally, Build Up supported PUNSAA, a local organization leading the local observers of the elections.
Expenses $638,553 · Grants $228,970
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Additionally, there were a number of other unique initiatives that Build Up supported, including: (i) artists committed to peace through Build Up's Dancing with Peace initiative; (ii) support to urban planners exiled from Syria reimagining Beirut in the absence of the current conflict; (iii) the innovation of Build Up's organizational structure to align with its peacebuilding principles through the support of Peace Nexus; and (iv) the development of Build Up's Phoenix open-source software for social media listening for peacebuilders.
Expenses $210,902
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Build Up continued its collaboration with the British Council to provide young media innovators in Syria and Yemen with effective tools, skills, and mentoring to create their own tech or digital media initiatives that respond to local community needs and contribute to their resilience. In 2022, 400 young and emerging actors, journalists, and content creators began to receive training and design support. In 2023, teams will be selected for continued Build Up mentorship and guidance through implementation. Celebration of peace innovation at Build Up's annual conference: Build Peace 2023
Expenses $92,217 · Grants $20,940
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Build Up began a new program in Kenya, focusing on strengthening the socio-economic self-reliance of youth (ages 15 - 34) in the refugee and host communities of Turkana (northeast Kenya). Build Up develops, produces, and disseminates "Gaming for Growth'', a multi-episode radio game show. The program focuses on promoting entrepreneurial skill sets and encourages listeners to be pro-active and hopeful in their quest for economic self-reliance.
Expenses $82,915
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Build Up continued a multi-year partnership with Search for Common Ground to grow the capabilities of global program and research teams to understand the digital manifestations of conflict through the use of appropriate social media listening tools and strategies. This also allowed us to deploy the first version of Phoenix, Build Up's bespoke, open-source software for social media listening.
Expenses $81,870
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Build Up launched its peace engineering fellowship, building local innovative potential for engineering students committed to reimagining the role of engineers in addressing some of society's most pressing socio-political challenges: social justice, peace, human rights, and environmental protection.
Expenses $14,402 · Grants $13,269
As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Dr Medinat Malefakis
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
-
Jerry McCann
Treasurer/secretary/ consultant
- Total calculated
- $32,000
- From this org
- $32,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Charles Hauss
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
-
Hein Paing Htoo Chit
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
-
Rodrigo Davies
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
-
Zeina Saab
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
-
Helena Puig Larrauri
CEO / consultant
- Total calculated
- $58,492
- From this org
- $58,492
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 1 October 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.1
- Source object
- 202432759349301298
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