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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by BUILDING TOMORROW INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$6,833,435
Total expenses
$4,210,747
Contributions and grants received
$6,747,800
Grants paid
$3,039,455
Program service revenue
$91,635
Investment income
$4,316
Other revenue
-$10,316
Total assets, end of year
$5,317,163
Total liabilities, end of year
$32,568
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,284,595
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,824,932
Management and general expenses
$188,809
Fundraising expenses
$197,006
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,824,932

Program services were 90.8% 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.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $319,442

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $6,428,358

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $49,422

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Volunteer Program

    total $91,635 · related or exempt $91,635 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $4,271 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $4,271

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $17,692 · other assets $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $17,647 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $45 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $45 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $45

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $66,423

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $319,442

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $76,739

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$10,316 · unrelated business $0 · excluded -$10,316

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $3,039,455 · program services $3,039,455

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $426,736 · program services $230,456 · management and general $89,824 · fundraising $106,456

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $218,605 · program services $121,099 · management and general $51,049 · fundraising $46,457

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $1,258 · program services $438 · management and general $820 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $41,076 · program services $29,085 · management and general $0 · fundraising $11,991

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $46,094 · program services $24,307 · management and general $11,528 · fundraising $10,259

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $93,907 · program services $71,684 · management and general $22,223 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $67,501 · program services $67,501 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,062 · program services $2,835 · management and general $1,063 · fundraising $1,164

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $9,515 · program services $4,203 · management and general $0 · fundraising $5,312

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $107,977 · program services $104,688 · management and general $1,719 · fundraising $1,570

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $26,036 · program services $14,580 · management and general $5,468 · fundraising $5,988

  • 17 · Travel

    total $122,701 · program services $111,930 · management and general $4,553 · fundraising $6,218

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,158 · program services $1,158 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $2,678 · program services $1,500 · management and general $562 · fundraising $616

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $988 · program services $13 · management and general $0 · fundraising $975

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,657,858 · end of year $563,442

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $560,044

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $4,158,999

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $1,000,000 · 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 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $11,799

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $11,688

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $6,546

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,140 · end of year $5,142

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $17,737

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $21,550 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $20,643 · end of year $32,568

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,328,967 · end of year $1,143,914

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,332,938 · end of year $4,140,681

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Building Tomorrow is an international non-profit organization that supports community-powered learning by mobilizing communities to deliver foundational literacy and numeracy programming to un- and under-schooled learners.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Building Tomorrow is a community-powered non-profit driving impact on foundational education.

  • Building Tomorrow equips Community Education Teams to support education in rural, underserved areas. Through this model, in 2023, we reached 179,903 learners in Uganda with our signature Roots to Rise foundational literacy and numeracy camps, cutting learning poverty for some three-quarters of our learners. We enrolled 36,875 out-of-school children in school, and we recruited and trained 3,993 Community Education Volunteers, who donated 559,070 hours of their time to supporting community-powered learning during 2023.

    Expenses $3,824,932 · Grants $3,039,455 · Revenue $91,635

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • George Srour

    Chief Dreamer

    Total calculated
    $194,464
    From this org
    $186,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,589
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,875
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,556
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33
    Filer's total
    $194,464
  • Julie Kornfeld

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $122,578
    From this org
    $114,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,828
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jyl Strong

    Director of Strategic Partnerships

    Total calculated
    $109,695
    From this org
    $104,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,320
    Hours/week
    40
  • Amy Walburn

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Bernadette Nakanwagi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Godfrey Ssemugooma

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Jean Blackwell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Jerry Langley

    Finance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Jim McClelland

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Jimmy Kolker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Ken Kobe

    Governance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Michael Stayton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Micheline Ntiru

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Nadira Lalji

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Emily Johnson

    Global Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • James Habyarimana

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Randal Kaltenmark

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Schedule J, Part I, Line 3
The Governance Committee of the Board of Directors completes a review and uses compensation surveys to determine salary. The board's decision is documented.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
6 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202423129349302547

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