Building New Foundations began informally in 2009 when a group of friends and colleagues within the construction industry offered to perform small project improvements for a local non-profit residential treatment center in need of desperate assistance. This RTC, as so many others in the greater Houston area, existed to rehabilitate and treat boys between the ages of 7-17 that have endured some of the most awful forms of abuse and neglect and have been deemed by the state as “specialized” or “high-risk” children." Various projects were performed through a "grass roots" movement to raise funds and utilize skills, talents and resources of various volunteers to improve their facilities. In 2013, the informal original members determined it was time to formally organize and create a non-profit organization with much higher aspirations of assisting and meeting the needs of the disadvantaged youth of the greater Houston area.