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BUILD FROM WITHIN ALLIANCE

EIN 87-4231864 ST PAUL, MN

Revenue 2023
$536,422
Expenses 2023
$744,594

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
625 UNIVERSITY AVE

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 · 2023

Mission

TO REVERSE SYSTEMIC DISINVESTMENT BY BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY THAT SUPPORTS LOW-INCOME RESIDENT ENTREPRENEURS AS DRIVERS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

  • BUILD FROM WITHIN ALLIANCE (BFWA) IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE NETWORK CONSISTS OF 16 MEMBERS IN 50 DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS. BFWA WORKS IN COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED BOTH VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE SIGNS OF SYSTEMIC DISINVESTMENT RESULTING FROM CENTURIES OF RACIST PRACTICES AND POLICIES. MEMBERS WORK TO REVERSE THIS SYSTEMIC DISINVESTMENT BY EXPANDING THE COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES REQUIRED TO SUPPORT LOW-INCOME RESIDENT ENTREPRENEURS AS DRIVERS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

    Expenses $606,952 · Grants $101,050 · Revenue $39,404

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • PATRICIA TOTOTZINTLE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHANELL SCOTT CONTRERAS

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY GABLER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOMINIC ROBINSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REPA MEKHA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEIGH-ANN BUCHANAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL CALISTRO

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RENAY DOSSMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $536,422
    Expenses
    $744,594
    Contributions
    $497,018
    Grants paid
    $101,050
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,307,900
    Expenses
    $613,289
    Contributions
    $1,307,900
    Grants paid
    $29,000

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.