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GARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION

EIN 27-0025657 FORT WORTH, TX

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Revenue 2025
$1,772,933
Expenses 2025
$1,489,942

Program services were 88.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
4404 OVERTON CREST ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE BIG GOOD IS A TAX-EXEMPT, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE SUPPORT OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN AND AROUND FT. WORTH, TX. THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THAT FOCUS ON EDUCATION, LIFESKILLS AND HEALTH AND PROVIDING EQUITABLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE BIG GOOD IS A TAX-EXEMPT, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE SUPPORT OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN AND AROUND FT. WORTH, TX. THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THAT FOCUS ON EDUCATION AND LIFESKILLS, AS WELL AS HEALTH AND FAMILY ISSUES IN THE FT. WORTH COMMUNITY. THE FOUNDATION STRIVES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH BETTER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.

  • THE BIG GOOD PROVIDED GRANTS TO A NUMBER OF FT. WORTH SCHOOLS AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH ADMINISTERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN.

    Expenses $1,321,755 · Grants $1,270,150

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gary Patterson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelsey Patterson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dean Hayes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Irene Hayes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,772,933
    Expenses
    $1,489,942
    Contributions
    $2,300,497
    Grants paid
    $1,270,150
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,193,739
    Expenses
    $1,226,774
    Contributions
    $1,557,039
    Grants paid
    $1,047,466
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,527,573
    Expenses
    $1,366,046
    Contributions
    $1,121,114
    Grants paid
    $1,080,653
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,308,248
    Expenses
    $1,188,327
    Contributions
    $1,228,153
    Grants paid
    $901,273

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $434,818
    Expenses
    $299,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,795

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,856
    Expenses
    $49,082
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,824

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $170,293
    Expenses
    $342,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,050

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $272,744
    Expenses
    $365,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,448

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $74,900
    Expenses
    $107,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,330

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,041
    Expenses
    $80,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $391,758

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $179,823
    Expenses
    $125,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $445,206

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $118,138
    Expenses
    $102,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $390,973

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $188,252
    Expenses
    $110,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,561

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $156,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $297,634

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.