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BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC

EIN 33-1007188 SAINT LOUIS, MO

Revenue 2024
$2,011,924
Expenses 2024
$1,715,508

Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
415 S 18TH ST STE 200

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sean Ramirez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Anjali Khosla

    Secretary, Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Joel Berger Thru Nov 2024

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Dave Foltz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Roz Johnson

    President, Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Jeff Kimsey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Shari Stout

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Annie Schmitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Roger Parry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Susan Foster

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Matt Payne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Maxine Clark

    Emeritus Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • Ray Mueller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,011,924
    Expenses
    $1,715,508
    Contributions
    $1,964,839
    Grants paid
    $1,670,696
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,993,273
    Expenses
    $2,238,209
    Contributions
    $1,952,400
    Grants paid
    $2,109,961
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,507,246
    Expenses
    $2,042,796
    Contributions
    $2,321,078
    Grants paid
    $1,893,510

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC.

    $1,899,172 in sales

    2024 Commercial Coventurer

    $1,899,172 to charity

  • BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC.

    $1,713,006 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $1,713,006 to charity

  • BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC.

    $1,355,052 in sales

    2021 Commercial Coventurer

    $1,355,052 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.