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BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION

EIN 95-4166205 IRVINE, CA

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Revenue 2024
$377,663
Expenses 2024
$390,741

Program services were 93.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
1000
Street
17192 MURPHY AVE UNIT 14445

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (UNIT 14445). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THIS CORPORATION ARE TO BENEFIT AND PROMOTE THE BUILDING INDUSTRY AND ITS WORKERS AND CUSTOMERS AND TO (1)PROMOTE AND SUPPORT SOUND PRINCIPLES IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY, (2)BRING DEFENSE AGAINST OR OTHERWISE PARTICIPATE IN LEGAL ACTIONS IMPACTING THE BUILDING INDUSTRY, (3)PREPARE ANALYSES OF LEGISLATION AND BALLOT MEASURES WHICH MIGHT AFFECT THE BUILDING INDUSTRY AND MAKE SUCH ANALYSES AVAILABLE AT NO COST TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING OTHER BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO BENEFIT AND PROMOTE THE BUILDING INDUSTRY AND ITS WORKERS AND CUSTOMERS.

  • THE BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION (BILD) MONITORS AND PROVIDES EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY LEGAL REPRESENTATION SPECIFICALLY CONCERNING THE UNFOLDING LEGAL ISSUES THAT AFFECT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA, AND INTERVENES AS APPROPRIATE. BILD FOCUSES PARTICULARLY ON LITIGATION MATTERS WITH AN INDUSTRY-WIDE, REGIONAL OR STATEWIDE SIGNIFICANCE. BILD'S PORTFOLIO OF ISSUES EMPHASIZED REGIONAL LAND USE PLANNING ISSUES, LITIGATION SPECIFICALLY CONCERNING FUNDING FOR STORMWATER COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS, GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION, AND THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT. BILD WAS ALSO ACTIVE IN AGENCY PROCESSES REGARDING WATER QUALITY PERMITTING, WETLANDS REGULATION, AND POTENTIAL REFORM OF PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.

    Expenses $365,934

As filed on the 2024 return. 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.

  • Jeff Montejano

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Dave Bartlett

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dag Wilkinson

    SECRETARY / TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam Wood

    COORDINATING COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Craig Foster

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/COO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

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
    $377,663
    Expenses
    $390,741
    Contributions
    $377,663
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $399,173
    Expenses
    $403,924
    Contributions
    $399,173
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $423,266
    Expenses
    $423,268
    Contributions
    $423,266
    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
    $405,909
    Expenses
    $500,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,686
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $408,902
    Expenses
    $497,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $365,474
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $446,265
    Expenses
    $372,736
    Assets (EOY)
    $403,651
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $390,213
    Expenses
    $455,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,469
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,147
    Expenses
    $286,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $393,423
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $332,938
    Expenses
    $319,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $256,067
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,527
    Expenses
    $269,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,427
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $251,377
    Expenses
    $297,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,383

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 on its 2024 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.