Impact and accountability

What you can verify today

• Legal name: Global Build International Foundation Inc.
• EIN: 47-4016484. Search it on the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search.
• The IRS record lists 2015 as the year formed and recognizes 501(c)(3) status.
• Office mail: 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 102-42, Arlington, VA 22201.
• Public sources show recent filings on Form 990-N, the e-Postcard for organizations whose gross receipts are normally $50,000 or less. Confirm the current year yourself. A 990-N does not contain a full expense statement.

What we will not put on this website

We will not publish graduate counts, placement rates, families served, countries reached, or dollars spent by program until a dated record exists and someone at the foundation can explain the method. Estimates written to make a page feel larger are not impact. They are a risk to donors and to the truth of the mission.

When a result is ready, it will name the program, the period, the source, and the limit of the claim. A story from a participant will use a name only with permission, or clearly marked composite language if we ever use it. We do not use invented quotations.

How gifts are used

Gifts support charitable programs, the partner costs those programs require, and the ordinary administration of the foundation. We do not publish a percentage split while the public filing is a 990-N, because that form does not report the split. Email info@gbifoundation.org for the current written statement. If a later year requires a full Form 990, we will link the filed return from this page.

Unless we tell you otherwise in writing before you give, a donation is a gift. You do not receive goods or services in return. Acknowledgments for gifts we actually receive are sent by email or mail for your tax records. Tax treatment depends on your own situation.

What success means in each program

These are the outcomes we intend to measure. They are not outcomes we are claiming today.

• Workforce: finished training, a documented employer conversation, and whether the person is employed in the following months.
• Digital literacy: skills a learner can demonstrate, not attendance alone.
• Health: sessions delivered with a qualified partner, and referrals that reached a real clinic. Not a claim that we provided medical care.
• Resilience: plans written and households included in a check-in list before an event.
• Technology: whether participants can explain an automated decision that affects them and where to question it.
• Community: a local group able to run the next cycle without the foundation as operator.

The figures a donor can check today are on the financial information page. Questions from grantmakers and donors are welcome on the contact page.