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BUY A BRICK FOUNDATION INC

EIN 27-0946444 FAIRHOPE, AL

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Revenue 2024
$230,208
Expenses 2024
$218,883

Program services were 94.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
1200
Street
18633 TWIN BEECH RD S

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Buy A Brick Foundation is to strengthen church ministry in other areas of the world and highlight the benefits of Christian community, advocate for those in need both spiritually and physically, address food shortages, diseases and orphanhood.

  • Sonkaba Community Garden

    Expenses $50,690

  • Construction of a Second School Blockat Batoka

    Expenses $48,570

  • Nyongolo Supplies

    Expenses $19,470

  • Binga Teachers Living Quarters

    Expenses $18,390

  • Monde Primary School Teachers Living Quarters

    Expenses $14,880

  • Drilling of Waterwells in South Hwange

    Expenses $12,280

  • Ndlovu 7 Mile Exchange- Drill one well, fence, solar power

    Expenses $9,800

  • The Village at BH 36- Solar Power well, piping, toilet and showers

    Expenses $8,900

  • Nyongolo Primary School Builder

    Expenses $6,500

  • Binga Primary School Builder

    Expenses $5,700

As filed on the 2024 return. The first 10 program lines listed; the rest are in the source return and the API. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sheila R Farthing

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gib Leonard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Kumbulani Tshambo

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Leigh Leonard

    Committee Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Pastor Brad Wilson

    Committee Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $230,208
    Expenses
    $218,883
    Contributions
    $230,208
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $278,509
    Expenses
    $275,630
    Contributions
    $278,509
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $227,177
    Expenses
    $259,080
    Contributions
    $227,177
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,082
    Expenses
    $300,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,635
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $277,228
    Expenses
    $266,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,843
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $160,046
    Expenses
    $157,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,589
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $82,221
    Expenses
    $84,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,655
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $83,965
    Expenses
    $90,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,634
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $78,230
    Expenses
    $78,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,934
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $184,406
    Expenses
    $174,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,233
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $84,904
    Expenses
    $94,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $518

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.