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BIGHOUSE INC

EIN 26-4232678 OPELIKA, AL

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Revenue 2024
$438,447
Expenses 2024
$401,900

Program services were 70.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P32
Classification
1000
Street
1400 GRAND NATIONAL PKWY

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 · 2024

Mission

Meeting the needs and improving the lives of children in foster care by supporint foster and adoptive families with resources and encouraging relationships.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Meeting the needs and improving the lives of children in foster care by supporting foster and adoptive families with resources and relationships

  • Foster and adoptive family events. Glitz Glam and Gowns - prom dress event for teen girls in foster care. Swimsuit and Towel Drive - a collection and embroidery of beach towels and swimsuits for children who have entered foster care this year. Back to School Bash - a school supply drive for children in foster adoptive families. Family Beach Retreat for foster and adoptive families. Santas Workshop - a Christmas toy drive for foster and adoptive families.

    Expenses $75,410

  • Foster and adoptive family programs. Kids Night Out - a time of respite and fun once a month for foster and adoptive families. Clothes closet - providing gently used closed. New-to-Care Closet - providing new toiletries and necessities for kids entering foster care. Moms Meet Up - a monthly foster and adoptive mom support group and dinner meeting. Dads Dinner - a monthly dinner for foster and adoptive dads.

    Expenses $59,826

  • Other miscellaneous programming expenses: One-time expenses for special events and wishes for children in foster care and their families. Utilities for clothes closet not included in program expenses above. Salaries for programs and events which are not included in events and programs above. Supplies and payments building which fall under programming expenses

    Expenses $147,448

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Micah Melnick

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $44,000
    From this org
    $44,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Blake Melnick

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • W David Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kim Dean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Samantha Copelan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Erica Ramey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Andrew Click

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Wren Aaron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $438,447
    Expenses
    $401,900
    Contributions
    $438,447
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $397,130
    Expenses
    $554,827
    Contributions
    $397,130
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $463,195
    Expenses
    $255,405
    Contributions
    $445,612
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $461,601
    Expenses
    $258,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $649,049

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $433,993
    Expenses
    $178,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $445,714

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009
Principal officer
Micah Melnick
Mailing address
PO Box 230Opelika AL 36801
Website
www.ourbighouse.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.