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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by BIG THOUGHT.

Totals

Total revenue
$11,029,928
Total expenses
$12,566,706
Contributions and grants received
$7,232,620
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$3,980,359
Investment income
$15,710
Other revenue
-$198,761
Total assets, end of year
$2,990,276
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,579,768
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,410,508
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$10,291,371
Management and general expenses
$1,620,017
Fundraising expenses
$655,318
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,291,371

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $362,041

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $1,607,067

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $5,263,512

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $32,579

  • 2a · Program service revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $424,349 · related or exempt $424,349

  • 2b · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE FEES

    total $3,556,010 · related or exempt $3,556,010

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $15,728 · excluded $15,728

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $4,441,023

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $4,441,041

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$18

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$18 · excluded -$18

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $44,196

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $362,041

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $242,957

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$198,761 · excluded -$198,761

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $553,504 · program services $84,027 · management and general $385,450 · fundraising $84,027

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $6,191,792 · program services $5,545,149 · management and general $239,837 · fundraising $406,806

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $465,738 · program services $400,766 · management and general $32,955 · fundraising $32,017

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $526,974 · program services $440,661 · management and general $48,104 · fundraising $38,209

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $24,350 · program services $19,133 · management and general $5,217

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $565,000 · program services $443,960 · management and general $121,040

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,757 · program services $5,397 · management and general $1,360

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $19,710 · program services $921 · management and general $14,793 · fundraising $3,996

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $250,163 · program services $165,738 · management and general $77,464 · fundraising $6,961

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $354,649 · program services $43,482 · management and general $311,112 · fundraising $55

  • 17 · Travel

    total $184,085 · program services $156,327 · management and general $24,296 · fundraising $3,462

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $63,357 · program services $41,182 · management and general $22,175

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $101,405 · program services $69,582 · management and general $31,823

  • 24a · Other expenses: AGENCY FEES

    total $1,450,236 · program services $1,450,236

  • 24b · Other expenses: CONTRACT SERVICES

    total $1,121,049 · program services $846,351 · management and general $217,084 · fundraising $57,614

  • 24c · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $391,863 · program services $376,518 · management and general $1,691 · fundraising $13,654

  • 24d · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $131,169 · program services $53,575 · management and general $70,260 · fundraising $7,334

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $164,905 · program services $148,366 · management and general $15,356 · fundraising $1,183

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,631,944 · end of year $1,230,465

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $162,357 · end of year $233,859

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $600,365 · end of year $432,392

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $63,672 · end of year $36,535

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,720,442

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $1,641,221

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $123,240 · end of year $79,221

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,780,564 · end of year $111,397

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $866,407

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $893,215 · end of year $652,072

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $521,463 · end of year $927,696

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,922,464 · end of year $460,977

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $25,000 · end of year $949,531

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The mission of Big Thought is to make imagination a part of everyday learning. We bring relentless optimism, innovation, and imagination to the biggest problem facing education today: the opportunity gap.

  • At Big Thought, we believe that all youth have innate greatness. Our North Star: All youth are equipped to imagine and create their best lives and world. Driven by our mission to make imagination a part of everyday learning, Big Thought is a social impact enterprise that focuses on youth development by preparing young creators with the skills and resources they need for the 21st century workplace. We exist to empower and equip youth to Create Great we're creating creators. At Big Thought, we provide the space and agency to support young creators through our programs and partnerships, which are powered by our dedicated research and development team that enables us to design high quality evidence-based programs, measure our impact, and expand our reach. Throughout our 30+ year history of innovation, Big Thought has become an award-winning national model in arts education, out of school time systems, summer learning and juvenile justice intervention. Now, we're one of six community partnerships in the U.S. helping scale national best practices in social and emotional learning.At our core, we empower youth to:1. build their creative muscle,2. develop social and emotional skills and wellbeing and,3. create their authentic voice.Big Thought implements three approaches to deliver this work:1. Direct to youth programs. We develop and deliver high quality curriculum and programs to serve communities with the greatest need. Big Thought programs reach on average over 6,700 students for more than 219,000 learning hours annually.2. Learning Systems. We do this by strategically connecting partners and resources across the city to create learning systems that address these themes. Big Thought Learning Systems reach on average over 120,000 students for more than 2.1 million learning hours annually.3. Powered by Big Thought, Big Thought Institute (BTI) is an innovative partner that enables organizations to expand their capacity to build creativity, develop 21st Century skills, and deliver unique learning experiences. BTI provides professional learning, consulting, design and research-based services to empower our clients to effectively teach, develop and create. We leverage evidence-based best practices in creativity and learning systems that have been established over 30 years. BTI serves over 20 clients annually and delivers training to over 1,900 individuals annually.

    Expenses $10,291,371 · Revenue $3,980,359

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Byron K Sanders

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $272,320
    From this org
    $263,726
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,594
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,620
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $41,106
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,594
    Filer's total
    $272,320
  • Glenn Baldwin

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $199,100
    From this org
    $190,506
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,594
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,269
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $25,237
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,594
    Filer's total
    $199,100
  • Erin Offord

    CHIEF PROG & SYSTEMS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $180,322
    From this org
    $171,728
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,594
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,737
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $25,991
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,594
    Filer's total
    $180,322
  • Gregory McPherson

    CHIEF BIT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $150,871
    From this org
    $142,277
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,594
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $123,983
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $18,294
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,594
    Filer's total
    $150,871
  • AKILAH WALLACE-thru 323

    VP-DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $137,878
    From this org
    $130,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,878
    Hours/week
    40
  • Karim Virani

    DIR-IT

    Total calculated
    $126,149
    From this org
    $126,149
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Leann Binford

    DIR-CONS. SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $115,753
    From this org
    $107,159
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,594
    Hours/week
    40
  • Addie Johnson

    SR DIR-PEOPLE

    Total calculated
    $113,867
    From this org
    $105,989
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,878
    Hours/week
    40
  • MUSTAPHA BEYDOUN-from 1122

    COO

    Total calculated
    $26,667
    From this org
    $26,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Anurima Bhargava

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dennis Palmer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Beth Ganslen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tynesia Boyea-Robinson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anthony Begon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Gormer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Andrew Legrand

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rene Martinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Theresa Flores

    CHAIR.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sydney Blocher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hollie Neal Morgan

    IMM. PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patrick Duffy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Andres Correa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Valerie Gillespie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vanna Hammond Parham

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jared Ginter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lisa Giuroiu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Peter Muriungi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cheryl Harris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rina Parikh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Don Templin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Irene Hosford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ryan Kline

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • D'Andre Weaver

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
9 May 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202421309349303222

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