BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B28

Classification

2000

Street

2300 MASTERS STREET

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

• TO PROVIDE EVERY STUDENT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT ADDRESS THEIR INTERESTS, PASSIONS, STRENGTHS, AND NEEDS. THE SCHOOL BELIEVES THAT EVERY STUDENT DESERVES ACCESS TO WORK AND POST-SECONDARY OPPORTUNITIES AND THAT AN EDUCATED PERSON IS ONE WHO IS SELF-AWARE, RESOURCEFUL, A SELF-ADVOCATE, POSSESSES ACADEMIC SKILLS, IS A PROBLEM-SOLVER, A CRITICAL THINKER, AND HAS EMPATHY FOR THEMSELF AND OTHERS. THE SCHOOL OPERATES TWO LOCATIONS - VAUX BIG PICTURE HIGH SCHOOL (VAUX) AND EL CENTRO DE ESTUDIANTES (EL CENTRO). VAUX SERVES APPROXIMATELY 320 STUDENTS IN GRADES 9 TO 12. EL CENTRO IS AN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE OVER-AGE AND/OR UNDER-CREDITED AND SERVES APPROXIMATELY 200 STUDENTS.CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE OACROSS BOTH SCHOOLS, ALL STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN REAL WORLD LEARNING PROGRAMMING WHICH INCLUDES A CONTINUUM OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO HELP STUDENTS IDENTIFY THEIR PASSIONS, CONNECT TO OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL TO EXPLORE THOSE PASSIONS, AND ENGAGE IN INTERNSHIPS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO HELP THEM BUILD THE SKILLS AND NETWORKS NEEDED TO PURSUE THEIR CAREER INTERESTS WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND FOLLOWING GRADUATION.

  Expenses $7,631,990 · Revenue $7,085,548

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,299,025

  Expenses

  $9,159,108

  Contributions

  $1,949,906

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,461,265

  Expenses

  $7,955,812

  Contributions

  $752,121

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,987,227

  Expenses

  $8,143,844

  Contributions

  $852,879

  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

  $9,213,712

  Expenses

  $9,320,974

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,803,801

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,610,435

  Expenses

  $8,267,258

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,290,633

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,756,839

  Expenses

  $7,116,342

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,784,792

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,924,302

  Expenses

  $7,153,469

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,733,848

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,497,971

  Expenses

  $6,217,855

  Assets (EOY)

  $966,479

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,497,971

  Expenses

  $6,220,717

  Assets (EOY)

  $966,481

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,699,657

  Expenses

  $4,718,813

  Assets (EOY)

  $791,135

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,334,624

  Expenses

  $2,417,799

  Assets (EOY)

  $481,669

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.

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

• PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC

  $298,397

  2022 · JOB- TRAINING

• PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC

  $233,485

  2023 · JOB- TRAINING

• PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC

  $186,140

  2024 · JOB- TRAINING

• ELEVATE 215

  $100,000

  2024 · School Growth

• TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUC

  $38,823

  2022 · Research subcontract

• PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2024 · HOLISTIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $25,050

  2022 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $20,000

  2023 · EDUCATION

• AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC

  $15,246

  2022 · HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $11,500

  2024 · EDUCATION

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

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