2015-08-13T14:06:00-07:00 2014-12-31 990 2014-01-01 223128648 buildOn Inc BUIL 2036029342 PO Box 16741 Stamford CT 06905 Marc Friedman Chief Operating Officer 2033573716 2015-08-06 2014 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z buildOn Inc P O Box 16741 Stamford CT 06905 14306236 0 6083 X www.buildon.org X 1991 CT buildOn breaks the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. Through buildOn afterschool programs in high schools across the U.S., urban youth are contributing intensive service, helping seniors, young children, and the homeless in their communities, and are also helping to build schools in some of the poorest countries on the planet. Students in buildOn programs, located in 51 of America's lowest performing urban high schools, have contributed a staggering 1,256,483 hours of service. buildOn also partners these same students with developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America to build schools. buildOn's school construction programs have completed 620 schools to date. And through the unparalleled commitment of parents and grandparents to educate their children, both boys and girls, rural villages provide all the volunteer labor in collaboration with buildOn to break ground on a new school every five days. 19 17 109 550 0 0 10289394 13507619 0 0 429617 116970 0 0 10719011 13624589 0 0 0 0 6068893 6626686 0 0 1541369 4134950 5927496 10203843 12554182 515168 1070407 8364674 9683124 280967 287194 8083707 9395930 buildOn breaks the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education. 0 0 4931382 0 0 US Afterschool Program: buildOn is confronting the education crisis in the United States by addressing indicators such as truancy, graduation rates, school participation, and civic engagement. We empower youth from fractured and under-resourced neighborhoods to make a positive difference in their communities through service and engagement activities. Each week, buildOn students in 51 schools across 7 regions participate in service activities to address issues in their communities such as elementary education, food insecurity, care for the elderly, support for the homeless and those in transitional housing, and environment issues and public green spaces. buildOn students also participate in academic engagement and service-learning activities each week. buildOn programming leads to the following outcomes: academic engagement, civic engagement, empowerment, expanded sense of possibilities, and personal and social development. buildOn members have contributed more than 1.2 million hours of service to their communities, and have helped build more than 736 schools around the world that bring access to education to 86,000 people daily. With 95% of buildOn seniors graduating from high school and continuing on to college, buildOn is inspiring tomorrow's business, community, and global pioneers who believe in the power of service. 5091729 0 0 International School Construction Program: Since 1992, buildOn has has mobilized rural villages in some of the poorest countries in the world to build more than 736 schools in Haiti, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Senegal. The countries in which we work consistently rank among the lowest on the United Nation's Human Development Index, where school construction and community education are vital to long-term health, economic growth and sustainability. buildOn engages in participatory development, creating partnerships with local communities who have ownership over the projects. The true power of buildOn's methodology resides in the fact that buildOn classrooms are constructed in partnership with the very people who will be benefiting from them. When buildOn enters new countries and regions, it becomes a resource for communities who want to provide quality education for their students. Local communities initiate each project and own the school, and the ministries of education agree to provide teachers and curriculum. Additionally, buildOn's Adult Literacy Program gives parents and grandparents the education they need to build a better life for themselves and their children. Each day, 86,000 children, parents, and grandparents are attending buildOn schools and taking advantage of a new access to education. 0 0 0 n/a 0 0 0 10023111 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 0 1 109 1 0 1 HA MI ML NP NU SG 0 0 1 1 0 X 19 17 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 AL AZ CA CO CT FL GA HI IL MA MD ME MI MS NC NJ NM NY OK OR PA SC TN UT VA WA WI WV X X X Marc Friedman 2033573716 800 Long Ridge Road 2nd Floor STAMFORD CT 06902 Amin Aladdin Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Jim Bell Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Diahann Billings-Burford Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Jeff Bornstein Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Kathy Cassidy Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Randi-Jean Hedin Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Suzie Ivelich Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Melissa Kiernan Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Erich Mauff Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 John Myers Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Denis Nayden Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Jim Parke Director 0.50 X 0 0 0 John Raffaeli Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Jim Reynolds Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Karen Seitz Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Melissa Thomson Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 John Seifert Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 Marc Friedman Chief Operating Officer 55 0 X 168972 0 14400 Jim Ziolkowski President & CEO 55 0 X 210000 0 13066 Rosann Jager Vice President - International Programs 45 0 X 95000 0 8840 Melissa Shields Vice President - U.S. Programs 45 0 X 100000 0 15302 Stephanie Skryzowski Chief Financial Officer 45 0 X 108000 0 12089 Carrie Pena Chief Marketing Officier 45 0 X 130000 0 8843 811972 0 72540 8 0 1 0 0 4332 0 2251740 0 0 11251547 621233 13507619 0 135220 0 0 135220 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 57213 0 75463 0 -18250 0 -18250 0 0 -18250 606184 2251740 606184 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13624589 0 0 116970 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1434172 440000 616972 377200 0 0 0 0 3880781 3268586 121864 490331 66899 57286 2012 7601 788378 686803 23139 78436 456456 372738 16148 67570 0 0 0 0 2684 270 276 2138 39942 647 38817 478 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 837877 824507 0 13370 5725 977 0 4748 240653 150083 9819 80751 137118 30398 15930 90790 0 0 0 0 69038 69038 0 0 1677530 1589077 4145 84308 0 0 0 0 233083 105924 28215 98944 2309 0 2309 0 0 0 0 0 58446 36047 15293 7106 107271 49726 57545 0 Financial Aid & Recruitment Fees 41700 23777 10221 7702 Bad Debt 30037 17233 12804 0 School Construction 2291642 2290163 26 1453 Government Fees & Bank Charges 152441 9831 14167 128443 12554182 10023111 989702 1541369 849502 790308 435391 486178 1621223 2683576 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 91295 45545 407008 259794 156358 147214 5158939 5489914 0 0 0 0 0 0 51966 40389 8364674 9683124 280967 287194 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 280967 287194 X 4813664 5164610 3270043 4231320 0 0 8083707 9395930 8364674 9683124 X 1070407 222398 0 0 0 19418 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 4767337 5524322 6986127 8789431 10920612 36987829 0 0 0 0 0 0 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 25000 4772337 5529322 6991127 8794431 10925612 37012829 4664778 32348051 61149 71961 145622 429616 109608 817956 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37830785 8356229 0.85507 0.79656 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 5518939 0 210181 0 0 0 5729120 4395965 3563 763321 0 0 3910 5158939 3866176 0 529789 0 0 0 4395965 3533502 400000 -67326 0 0 0 3866176 3254056 0 279446 0 0 0 3533502 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 407008 259794 147214 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 147214 14493756 -61878 911527 0 0 849649 13644107 0 -19518 -19518 13624589 13465710 911528 0 0 0 911528 12554182 0 0 0 12554182 Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 The board designated endowment is maintained to sustain growth at buildOn. Schedule D, Part XI, Line 4b Unrealized gain on foreign currency. South Asia 1 11 Program Services Construction of schools 416201 Sub-Saharan Africa 5 35 Program Services Construction of schools 1786224 Central America and the Caribbean 2 19 Program Services Construction of schools 1316895 8 65 3519320 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 Accounting Method - Accrual CT Gala 3766567 1697604 2068963 0 105036 53170 126159 7389 52896 CA Dinner 405035 139050 265985 0 32168 16556 30747 12494 10954 7 791084 268108 522976 0 453 49557 94963 8515 5127 4962686 2104762 2857924 0 137657 119283 251869 28398 68977 606184 2251740 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jim Ziolkowski President & CEO 210000 0 0 0 0 0 1500 0 11566 0 223066 0 0 0 Marc Friedman Chief Operating Officer 168972 0 0 0 0 0 1500 0 12900 0 183372 0 0 0 X 9 74820 FMV on day of donation X Materials for school 143 562477 FMV on day of donation 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 buildOn National Board of Directors member Kathy Cassidy is Vice President & Treasurer of GE and buildOn National Board of Directors member Jeff Bornstein is Senior Vice President and CFO of GE Capital. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Finance team at buildOn is responsible for the timely preparation of the Form 990. the completed Form 990 is provided to the entire National Board of Directors in advance of the filing deadline to enable a detailed and conscientious review by all board members. All questions and concerns of the Board will be addressed by the Finance team and incorporated into the return as appropriate. Senior management of buildOn will file the final Form 990 as required. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The chairman of the Governance Committee of the National Board of Directors requests all officers, directors and key employees to disclose interest that could give rise to conflicts. It is required that each director, officer, CEO, COO and CFO annually complete and sign a disclosure statement. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The CEO's performance is reviewed on an annual basis by the Governance Committee of the National Board of Directors. The Governance Committee sends the performance review out to the National Board of Directors for comment. The Governance Committee then complies all comments and conducts the performance review and makes a recommendation to the Finance Committee regarding the CEO's salary. It is the Finance Committee that ultimately determines the compensation of the CEO using comparable compensation obtained from compensation surveys of similarly situated organizations. The last time the CEO accepted a salary increase was July 1, 2010. The COO, CFO, CMO, VP of US Programs and VP of International Programs are all officers of the company. With the National Board of Director's approval , the CEO reviews and sets the salary of the Officers of buildOn based upon comparable compensation obtained from compensation surveys of similarly situated organization. All performance reviews are documented in the employee's personal file. All officers received a performance review in 2014. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 buildOn discloses its financial statements, audits and Form 990 on their website buildOn.org. In addition, buildOn's Form 990 and financial statements are available for public inspection on other websites such as Charity Navigator. Anyone, at any time, can request a copy of buildOn's bylaws, conflict of interest policy, financial statements, most recent Form 990 and financial audit. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Unrealized gain on Foreign Exchange Our financial audit was not complete in time for buildOn to submit Form 990 by the original due date of May 15, 2015