Nonprofit · EIN 75-2170035
BIG THOUGHT
Tax-exempt · DALLAS, TX 75215
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $9,643,762 | $12,635,594 | -$2,991,832 | $2,103,762 | $2,861,519 | -$757,757 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $6,677,537
- of which government grants
- $1,258,401
- Program service revenue
- $2,952,093
- Investment income
- $14,132
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $8,328
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $1,002,130
- Other salaries and wages
- $6,389,088
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $8,396,581
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $7,368
- Accounting fees
- $30,100
- Occupancy
- $381,073
- Travel
- $283,606
- Depreciation
- $34,519
- Program services (functional)
- $10,570,987
- Management and general (functional)
- $1,592,299
- Fundraising (functional)
- $472,308
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $4,028,491
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,103,762
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,861,519
- Net assets, end of year
- -$757,757
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $95,397
- Publicly traded securities
- $654
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- -$1,830,863
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $1,073,106
- Gross receipts
- $11,029,325
- Employees
- 223
- Volunteers
- 50
- Year formed
- 1987
- State of legal domicile
- TX
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERIN OFFORD-FROM 824 | President & CEO Officer | 40 | $191,581 | $8,585 |
| BYRON K SANDERS-thru 1124 | President & CEO Officer | 40 | $183,417 | $7,857 |
| GLENN BALDWIN-THRU 625 | CFO Officer | 40 | $178,759 | $8,585 |
| DHRITI STOCKS | CHIEF DEV OFF Officer | 40 | $151,543 | $8,585 |
| MUSTAPHA BEYDOUN | COO-thru 5/24 | 40 | $158,572 | $0 |
| GREGORY MACPHERSON | CHIEF BTI OFF Officer | 40 | $147,735 | $8,585 |
| LEANN BINFORD | DIR-CONSULTING SER | 40 | $103,991 | $8,585 |
| ANURIMA BHARGAVA | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| AARON JACKSON | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| BETH GANSLEN | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| DYKE SHIPP | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| ANTHONY BEGON | chair elect Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| KELLY ANN DOHERTY | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| ANDREW LEGRAND | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| KIMBERLY RIDDICK | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
14 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEENA NEWBERRY | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| SYDNEY BLOCkER | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| TAMELA THORNTON | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| PATRICK DUFFY | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ANDRES CORREA | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| DENNIS PALMER | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| VANA HAMMOND | IMM PAST CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| CHRISTOPHER SHROPSHIRE | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| CHERYL HARRIS | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| RINA PARIKH | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| RYAN KLINE | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| D'ANDRE WEAVER | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| LARRY GUILLORY | CAO-FROM 1/25 Officer | 40 | $0 |
| LARRY GUILLORY | CFO-FROM 6/25 Officer | 40 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD STE 1015, DALLAS, TX 75215-6863
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- ERIN OFFORD
- Signed the 990
- LARRY GUILLORY, CFO
- Phone
- (214) 520-0023
- Return prepared by
- Sutton Frost Cary LLP
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.
Program accomplishments
- At Big Thought, we believe that all youth have innate greatness. Our North Star is that 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 build their creative muscle, develop social and emotional skills and wellbeing and 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 4,000 students for more than 443,000 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 20,000 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. BTIs client services impact adults who impact youth, engaging with an average of 10,000+ adults and having an indirect impact on hundreds of thousands of youth.How we implement these programs is what makes us uniquely effective. The Big Thought team and partners are able to achieve success in our community through our social and emotional focus, experiential learning, community-centered partnerships, equity lens and future focus.Big Thoughts unique approach comes alive in the following implementations: Weve positioned youth as equal partners in geographic/local expansion of Big Thought direct-to-youth programs so that these systems are more effective, and programs are established with a racial equity lens. We raise awareness of creativity as a workplace skill and advocate to embed creativity in human capital development institutions. We scale best practices to key institutions and systems through consulting, technical assistance, professional development and curriculum design while enabling youth to directly share their stories and perspectives with decision-makers.Expenses $10,570,987 · revenue $2,952,093
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 30, 2026 | November 16, 2026 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | June 30, 2025 | November 17, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | June 30, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 75-2170035
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1987
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A250)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $2,103,762
- Income (IRS master file)
- $11,029,325
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2023 | $11,029,928 | $12,566,706 | $2,990,276 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2022 | $10,675,697 | $9,739,647 | $4,362,142 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS publishes only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years appear here as 990.tax collects the monthly files. 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS.
Questions about BIG THOUGHT
- What is the EIN of BIG THOUGHT?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of BIG THOUGHT is 75-2170035.
- Is BIG THOUGHT tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1987.
- Are donations to BIG THOUGHT tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does BIG THOUGHT file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of BIG THOUGHT due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did BIG THOUGHT last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended June 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of BIG THOUGHT?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names ERIN OFFORD.
- Who are the officers and directors of BIG THOUGHT?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 29 people; 7 received compensation from the organization, the highest $191,581 (ERIN OFFORD-FROM 824, President & CEO).
- How much revenue does BIG THOUGHT have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $9,643,762, expenses of $12,635,594 and total assets of $2,103,762 at year end.
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