2021-05-14T07:06:42-07:00 2020-06-30 752593210 Sutton Frost Cary LLP 600 Six Flags Dr Suite 600 Arlington TX 76011 990 2019-07-01 752170035 BIG THOUGHT BIGT 2145200023 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD DALLAS TX 75215 Glenn Baldwin CFO 2021-05-14 true Carroll Elizabeth Arnott P01965628 8176498083 2019 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X BYRON K SANDERS 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD 1015 DALLAS TX 75215 7141396 false X www.bigthought.org X 1987 TX 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. 38 38 139 150 0 6986245 5111258 2325654 2026023 18633 4115 -160891 0 9169641 7141396 0 0 4855456 6032517 0 368389 4334547 3330008 9190003 9362525 -20362 -2221129 3696451 2778640 1351610 2654928 2344841 123712 X 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. true false 8019866 2026023 At Big Thought, we believe that all youth have greatness. Our North Star is that all youth in marginalized communities 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 an impact education nonprofit dedicated to closing the opportunity gap for youth in Dallas and beyond. Founded in 1987 by Dallas civic leaders Edith O'Donnell and Mitch Jericho as an affiliate of Young Audiences, the organization began innovating education from its inception by bringing arts and cultural performances into classrooms at a time when the arts had been marginalized or even eliminated from public school curricula. The organization soon grew to serve children, educators, and families in more ways than its founders ever imagined. In 2004, the name Big Thought was adopted to reflect the broadened scope and vision.Throughout our 30+ year history of innovation, Big Thought has become a national model in arts education, out of school time systems, summer learning and juvenile justice intervention. Now we're one of 6 community partnerships in the U.S. helping scale national best practices in social and emotional learning.At our core, we empower youth to 1.build their creative muscle, 2.develop social and emotional skills and wellbeing3.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 over 16,000 students for more than 321,000 learning hours each year.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 over 137,000 students for more than 3.7million learning hours each year.3.Big Thought Institute. We obsess over research, development and design, ensuring that we are evaluating and enhancing our work year after year. Further, we take our evidence-based best practices and learnings and share them with other non-profits and organizations through consulting, professional development and program design services.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 advocate on issues and policy changes related to racial an economic equity.We raise awareness of creativity as workplace skill and advocate to embed in human capital development institutions.We scale best practices to key institutions and systems through consulting, technical assistance, professional development and curriculum design. 8019866 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true true false true false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true false false false false true true false false false true 313 0 true 139 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 38 38 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X GLENN BALDWIN 2145200023 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD 1015 DALLAS TX 75215 BYRON K SANDERS President & CEO 40.00 0.00 X 215250 0 9146 JESSICA MALEK CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER 40.00 0.00 179525 0 9146 GLENN BALDWIN CFO 40.00 0.00 X 165501 0 9146 AMANDA RAINEY CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER 40.00 0.00 151500 0 9146 ERIN OFFORD SENIOR DIRECTOR 40.00 0.00 104277 0 9146 GREGORY MACPHERSON SENIOR DIRECTOR 40.00 0.00 104239 0 9146 KARIM VIRANI DIRECTOR OF IT 40.00 0.00 111801 0 0 JENNIFER ALTABEF Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CARSTEN FREDERIKSEN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 BETH GANSLEN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TYNESIA BOYEA-ROBINSON Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MELISSA MCNEIL Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JENNIFER GORMER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KATE FLUME Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RENE MARTINEZ Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 THERESA FLORES Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Maura Conley Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 HOLLIE NEAL MORGAN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 GINGER SAGER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 AMANDA GIELOW Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Rick Darlow Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Giles Davidson Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JARED GINTER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LISA GIUROIU Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PETER MURIUNGI Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RICHARD LATIN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 SHAUN DOWLING CHAIRMAN 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 SUSAN PARKER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Carol Goglia Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOHN GASKO Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MYLES MELVILLE Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RINA PARIKH Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DON TEMPLIN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JAY VEAL Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Irene Hosford Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DANICA MATHES CHAIRMAN ELECT 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 RANA SEVERS Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ELI MERCADO Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Katie Johnson Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Melora Leiser IMM PAST CHAIR 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 TODD WESTERBURG Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DE'EDRA WILLIAMS Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 EMILY ROBBEN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TREVOR REES-JONES Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KETRIC SANFORD Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 1032093 54876 7 false true false SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY PO BOX 750511 DALLAS TX 75275 RESEARCH PROJECT 230610 DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK 3900 WILLOW ST 110 DALLAS TX 75226 COMMUNITY RESOURCES 127893 GOGO CHARTERS 3340 PEACHTREE RD NE 100 ATLANTA GA 30326 TRANSPORTATION 154999 PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2201 N FIELD STREET DALLAS TX 75201 MUSEUM 117731 4 720250 4391008 39000 5111258 OTHER INCOME 900099 462404 462404 PROGRAM SERVICE FEES 611710 1563619 1563619 2026023 4115 4115 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7141396 2026023 4115 0 0 0 0 761999 153932 493299 114768 0 4432546 4203693 50559 178294 0 405322 365881 20771 18670 432650 364940 43611 24099 0 12 12 26550 18033 8517 0 0 0 93540 91119 2421 98130 63768 34337 25 23722 6699 12552 4471 278573 196918 77055 4600 0 146688 95347 51341 108386 89858 17508 1020 0 0 0 0 85023 55265 29758 91948 60633 31315 CONTRACT SERVICES 1144413 1138222 6116 75 AGENCY FEES 726411 726411 SUPPLIES 249680 243872 162 5646 MISCELLANEOUS 129084 29718 84583 14783 127848 115557 10353 1938 9362525 8019866 974270 368389 1299165 1243761 0 896227 420173 57897 159150 0 0 0 0 37478 42312 1639288 1476049 227271 163239 1178413 750005 0 0 0 0 3696451 2778640 795724 685952 1046100 555886 922876 1351610 2654928 X 1705441 101682 639400 22030 2344841 123712 3696451 2778640 -2221129 X false true X true false X 8429404 5539463 4568185 6986245 5111258 30634555 0 0 8429404 5539463 4568185 6986245 5111258 30634555 6494808 24139747 42 3231 11094 18633 4115 37115 0 0 30671670 9922558 0.78700 0.82050 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1639288 1476049 163239 163239 DEF.REVENUE, RENT & LEASE INCENTIVE 522876 REFUNDABLE ADVANCES 400000 922876 X Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Organization is exempt from federal income taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the IRC and has not been classified as a private foundation as defined in the IRC. Income generated from activities unrelated to the Organizations exempt purposes is subject to tax under IRC Section 511. The Organization had no unrelated business income for the year ended June 30, 2020. GAAP requires the evaluation of tax positions taken in the course of preparing the Organizations tax returns and recognition of a tax liability (or asset) if the Organization has taken an uncertain position that more likely than not would not be sustained upon examination by the Internal Revenue Service. Management has analyzed the tax positions taken by the Organization, and has concluded that as of June 30, 2019, there are no uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition of a liability (or asset) or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements. X X X false false false false false false false false false AMANDA RAINEY CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER 151500 9146 160646 BYRON K SANDERS President & CEO 215250 9146 224396 GLENN BALDWIN CFO 165501 9146 174647 JESSICA MALEK CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER 179525 9146 188671 X LAPTOPS 1 36000 FMV X Musical Equip. 2 1100 FMV X GIFT CARDS 1 1000 FMV X PPE 1 900 FMV false false false Form 990, Part III, Line 2: New Services INCREASED EMPHASIS IN VIRTUAL LEARNING. Form 990, Part VI, Line 1a: Explanation of Delegated Broad Authority to Committee The delegation of authority to the Executive Board of Directors shall not operate to relieve the Board of Directors, or any individual director, of any responsibility imposed by law or for responsibility for any action approved by the Board of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The CFO reviews a draft of the Preparer's Form 990 in detail. Afterwards, a copy is sent to the executive board for its review and comment prior to filing the return. The CFO then signs the return after considering board comments. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The conflict of interest disclosure statement is sent to officers, directors and key employees annually. A designated group ensures receipt of the disclosure statements and addresses any issues as needed. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Salary of officers and key employees is determined by compensation survey and comparisons to similar organizations. The annual operating budget, which includes salaries, is approved by the Board of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Governing documents, policies and financial statements are available upon request. FORM 990, PART X BALANCE SHEET THE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE PREPARED ON A CONSOLIDATED BASIS WHICH INCLUDES THE BIG THOUGHT ENDOWMENT FUND. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS 990, ASSETS AND UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS ARE DECREASED BY $2,970. Big Thought Endowment Fund 1409 SOUTH LAMAR ST SUITE 1015 Dallas TX 75215 320100426 Support Big Thought TX 501(c)(3) 11 BIG THOUGHT true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true false false false false