EIN 68-0401509

New Buildings Institute

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
32
State
Year formed
1997
Most recent tax filings
2022-06-01
Description
New Buildings Institute pushes for zero carbon buildings through research, policy, guidance, and market transformation.
Total revenues
$6,167,404
2022
Total expenses
$5,504,792
2022
Total assets
$4,008,688
2022
Num. employees
32
2022

Program areas at New Buildings Institute

Leadership and market development: nbi's research, project tracking, convenings and networking, education and thought leadership on "getting to zero" focuses on driving scale in building decarbonization including energy efficiency improvements. During the 2021-2022 year, nbi has broadened its market development and ongoing engagement with critical market audiences and growing our reach through collaboration to over half a millon building industry professionals. Nbi continued to develop research and project tracking to offer proof and provide scalable examples showing that net zero performance goals are viable. Successes and lessons learned are shared through utility programs, ngos, advocacy groups, and direct to designers and owners. (continued on sch o)nbi developed a New low-carbon specification that is being launched by a pace financing firm as a pathway for developers to pursue carbon reductions in their projects. Nbi hosted several public-facing awareness building events including webinars that touched nearly 5,000 people and a social medial campaign (net zero now) that garnered over 4 million impressions on social media. These efforts will help build industry capability to deliver on the upcoming policies calling for net zero outcomes and "tip the scales" towards zero. The long-term outcome of these efforts is that the messaging, community connections, data, documentation, and resources developed spark disruptive innovation of the status quo and make net zero Buildings a standard for New construction and major renovations. The getting to zero platform, including the forum event last held with over 500 participants in fall 2021, provides an opportunity to form collaborations and build knowledge about products and services, design practices, programs and policies that will accelerate growth in investment and net zero outcomes.
Building and program innovationunder building and program innovation, nbi performs technical research, performs analysis, and develops resources such as tools and guidance to provide critical support for building owners, practitioners, utilities, governments, and others. This work advances programs seeking to enhance energy efficiency and low carbon outcomes in the built environment. Examples of activities include building science research, emerging technology demonstration and validation, building-grid integration guidance, tools, and metrics through the gridoptimal Buildings initiative, building portfolio diagnostic assessments using firstview, technology assessments such as the building electrification technologies roadmap, (continued on sch o) energy use index performance targets, and the zepi (zero energy performance index) building energy performance scale. In addition, in the 2021-2022 year, nbi (in collaboration with over 30 companies and organizations) continued to lead the advanced water heating initiative, , which aims to grow the market share of heat pump water heaters for significant decarbonization benefits and energy savings in the residential and commercial sectors.
Codes and policies:energy codes continue to be a crucial lever in transforming markets for high performance Buildings. Nbi's work in this program area included strengthening model building energy codes and increasing their use and usefulness. We also worked on developing the necessary thought leadership to overcome critical issues that are hindering code advancement and create the technical basis for progressive code and policy approaches such as decarbonized and stretch codes, as well as building performance standards. Nbi worked directly with leading local jurisdictions to implement these advanced code and policy strategies as well as to develop code and policy roadmaps. (continued on sch o)nbi also worked to support the expansion of codes and policy development to take a more holistic view of climate focusing increasingly on carbon neutrality, health and resilience. Several jurisdictions are developing zero energy and zero carbon roadmaps that set objectives for each code cycle, moving stringency along a path to ultimately reach these performance levels.

Who funds New Buildings Institute

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Sea Change FoundationPromote Energy Efficiency$600,000
Bloomberg PhilanthropiesAccelerate Transition To Clean Energy$600,000
Rocky Mountain InstituteSupport Program$295,375
...and 7 more grants received

Personnel at New Buildings Institute

NameTitleCompensation
Ralph DinolaChief Executive Officer$183,939
Stacey HobartCommunications Director$147,741
Jim EdelsonDirector of Policy
Kim CheslakDirector , Codes and Policy$120,479
Amy CorteseDirector , Programs$144,638
...and 21 more key personnel

Financials for New Buildings Institute

RevenuesFYE 06/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$2,557,501
Program services$3,606,957
Investment income and dividends$2,674
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$-1,828
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$2,100
Total revenues$6,167,404

Form 990s for New Buildings Institute

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-062023-03-02990View PDF
2020-062021-04-13990View PDF
2019-062021-01-21990View PDF
2018-062019-05-14990View PDF
2017-062018-04-10990View PDF
...and 6 more Form 990s
Data update history
June 17, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
June 15, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 5 new personnel
June 12, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 4 new vendors, including , , , and
June 12, 2023
Received grants
Identified 5 new grant, including a grant for $250,000 from Breakthrough Energy Foundation
May 16, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 4 new personnel
Nonprofit Types
Trade associationsBusiness and community development organizationsEnvironmental organizationsCharities
Issues
Energy conservationEnvironmentPublic policyBusiness and industry
Characteristics
National levelReceives government fundingTax deductible donations
General information
Address
151 SW 1st Ave 300
Portland, OR 97204
Metro area
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
Website URL
newbuildings.org/ 
Phone
(503) 761-7339
Facebook page
ZeroEnergyBuildings 
Twitter profile
@zeroenergybldgs 
IRS details
EIN
68-0401509
Fiscal year end
June
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1997
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
C35: Energy Resource Conservation and Development
NAICS code, primary
813910: Trade Associations
Parent/child status
Independent
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