Building With Baseball Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Building With Baseball Inc. BWB is a D.C. nonprofit corporation incorporated and operated exclusively for charitable religious educational and scientific purposes within the meaning of section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. More specifically but without limitation BWB is organized and operated to organize trips and projects that offer student athletes in the United States the opportunity to engage in various types of service and sports activities with underprivileged individuals in the Dominican Republic that seek to provide relief of the impoverished and build international understanding and relationships.
- Income
- $127,697
- Spending
- $137,247
- Reserves
- 1.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 62%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $87,057 spent. BWB successfully conducted its primary service activity consisting of an annual week-long trip to the Dominican Republic by more than 30 high school students who attend school and play varsity baseball at various high schools in Washington DC along with several high school coaches and accompanied by adult chaperones including high school administrators and parents. The US participants were provided with extensive opportunities to engage in service activities painting building and repairing homes mixing and pouring concrete floors interacting with children at an orphanage for severely disabled children and other service activities; to interact and play baseball games with local Dominican youth; and to engage in other social and cultural activities while in the DR. Most US participants paid the direct cost of their participation in the trip while some with financial need received full or partial fee waivers.
- $16,272 spent. BWB paid the costs of service and relief projects in the Dominican Republic including service projects carried out by the US participants on the DR trip as well as paying the costs supplies and local labor of building baseball field dugouts for children in the village of Chicharrones.
- BWB provided donations to charitable organizations that provide relief and support to disadvantaged individuals in the Dominican Republic including Foundation for Peace Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and Roncalli International Foundation.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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