Totals
- Total revenue
- $2,314,117
- Total expenses
- $2,330,988
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,256,940
- Grants paid
- $1,749,371
- Program service revenue
- $2,800
- Investment income
- $54,377
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,613,765
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $15,272
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,598,493
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,250,054
- Management and general expenses
- $31,234
- Fundraising expenses
- $49,700
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,250,054
Program services were 96.5% 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
$2,256,940
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$218,092
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2a · Program service revenue: CRAFT SALES
total $2,800 · related or exempt $2,800
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3 · Investment income
total $54,377 · excluded $54,377
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $1,749,371 · program services $1,749,371
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $0
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $26,061 · management and general $26,061
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $527,914 · program services $500,683 · management and general $900 · fundraising $26,331
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $5,340 · management and general $911 · fundraising $4,429
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14 · Information technology
total $132 · fundraising $132
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $0
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17 · Travel
total $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $7,856 · management and general $460 · fundraising $7,396
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $2,902 · management and general $2,902
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24a · Other expenses: Permits and Licenses
total $2,930 · fundraising $2,930
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24e · All other expenses
total $8,482 · fundraising $8,482
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $221,079 · end of year $986,949
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $315,934 · end of year $614,141
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $592,140
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $15,811 · end of year $12,675
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$27,841
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$27,841
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $618
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $511,330
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $33,105 · end of year $15,272
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,623,807 · end of year $1,598,493
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Build a miracle provides safe, dignified homes to impoverished families in Tijuana, Mexico. In addition, Build A Miracle provides numerous educational opportunities including tutoring, vocational training, scholarships, computer labs and an adult education program.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO PROVIDE HOMES AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPOVERISHED FAMILIES IN TIJUANA, MEXICO.
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In 2023 Build A Miracle completed 32 new homes for impoverished families, who also participate in education programs. Full BAM homes are 540 sq ft with 3 bedrooms, indoor plumbing, kitchen, bathroom and living/dining room. They earn their homes with a minimum of 500 hours of community service but most remain involved in our programs indefinitely both improving their own lives and helping others. The homes are built during build days when U.S. and local volunteers mix concrete, hammer nails and paint, and during the work week by experienced, paid builders. The Dads Program, made up of men on the wait list for homes and many who already live in BAM homes, helps extremely impoverished families who live in shacks and do not have land rights so do not qualify for a full home. They make their dwellings safe, pour concrete floors, reinforce walls, replace tarps with real roofing, and build septic tanks. This program has an enormous impact on the lives of the people served and the men themselves. 289 Dads participated in 2023.
Expenses $946,810
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Our goal is to provide every family that needs it, a path out of the vulnerable class helping the next generation to be able to afford their own home and our academic, scholarship, trade and adult education programs are geared to make that possible, free of charge, to vulnerable Tijuana residents whether they are living in a BAM home or not. EDUCATION During 2023 we provided scholarships to 97 college and 115 HS students, with 60 total college grads to date. The Community Center, offers, free of charge, accredited adult elem., middle and HS, tutoring, counseling, sports, fitness, robotics, nutrition and many more courses over 100 children receive a healthy meal each day that they participate at the center. 750 children attended Summer School at the Community Center in 2023.
Expenses $988,893
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Other program services Build a miracle provided scholarship assistance to 4 children in Guatemala who lost their father to drowning. Other programs continued and expanded during 2023 include dental and vision care for community members 408 people served who cannot afford them on their own and support for a program that provides education to the largely forgotten children of trash-pickers who live at the municipal dump. The Pandemic-related Direct Relief food and medicine that kept families going, transitioned to helping only helping those unable to return to normal lives and also spawned the Grandparents Program where scholarship recipients visit with and provide interactive programs for the elderly in their communities. 461 people received medical assistance. 39,700 meals were served, 151 elderly people were in Grandparents program which offers Arts and Crafts, Outings, Visits, Haicuts and more. There were 4 psychologists working with 269 individuals or families and 859 workshops for family, psychology, team building and more.
Expenses $314,351 · Revenue $2,100
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Christopher North
CFO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Julianne North
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
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John Reinhold
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Buddy Thomas
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Elizabeth Thomas
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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
- 2024
- Filed
- 14 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202513189349313446
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