2026-05-13T11:50:48-07:00 2025-06-30 752593210 Sutton Frost Cary LLP 200 E Front St Suite 200 Arlington TX 76011 990 2024-07-01 752170035 BIG THOUGHT BIGT 2145200023 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD 1015 DALLAS TX 75215 LARRY GUILLORY CFO 2026-05-13 true true Carroll Elizabeth Arnott P01965628 8176498083 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z ERIN OFFORD 11029325 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. 20 20 223 50 0 9080706 6677537 3463090 2952093 44042 14132 68386 0 12656224 9643762 0 0 7604054 8396581 0 472308 4214653 4239013 11818707 12635594 837517 -2991832 4028491 2103762 1797419 2861519 2231072 -757757 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. false false 10570987 2952093 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. 10570987 true true false false false false false false false false true false false true true true false true false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true false false false true 77 0 true 223 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 20 20 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X LARRY GUILLORY 2145200023 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD 1015 DALLAS TX 75215 ERIN OFFORD-FROM 824 President & CEO 40.00 0.00 X 191581 0 8585 BYRON K SANDERS-thru 1124 President & CEO 40.00 0.00 X 183417 0 7857 GLENN BALDWIN-THRU 625 CFO 40.00 0.00 X 178759 0 8585 DHRITI STOCKS CHIEF DEV OFF 40.00 0.00 X 151543 0 8585 MUSTAPHA BEYDOUN COO-thru 5/24 40.00 0.00 158572 0 0 GREGORY MACPHERSON CHIEF BTI OFF 40.00 0.00 X 147735 0 8585 LEANN BINFORD DIR-CONSULTING SER 40.00 0.00 103991 0 8585 ANURIMA BHARGAVA Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 AARON JACKSON Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 BETH GANSLEN Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DYKE SHIPP Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ANTHONY BEGON chair elect 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 KELLY ANN DOHERTY Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ANDREW LEGRAND Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KIMBERLY RIDDICK Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 NEENA NEWBERRY Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 SYDNEY BLOCkER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TAMELA THORNTON Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PATRICK DUFFY Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ANDRES CORREA Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DENNIS PALMER Chairman 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 VANA HAMMOND IMM PAST CHAIR 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 CHRISTOPHER SHROPSHIRE Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CHERYL HARRIS Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RINA PARIKH Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RYAN KLINE Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 D'ANDRE WEAVER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LARRY GUILLORY CAO-FROM 1/25 40.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LARRY GUILLORY CFO-FROM 6/25 40.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 1115598 50782 7 true true false ARKUS INC 10 TIMES SQUARE 6TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018 SALESFORCE SOLUTIONS 105839 MELISSA PHILLIPS 1617 DONLEY DR EULESS TX 76039 CONSULTING 157998 LET THE BEAT BUILD FOUNDATION 18959 DALLAS PKWY 1123 DALLAS TX 75287 PROGRAM PARTNER 265257 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 633 CLARK ST EVANSTON IL 60208 program partner 120000 PEER FORWARD 1140 3RD ST NE 320 WASHINGTON DC 20002 CONSULTING 120500 5 1258401 5419136 6677537 OTHER INCOME 900099 30582 30582 PROGRAM SERVICE FEES 611710 2921511 2921511 2952093 5804 5804 0 0 0 1393891 1385563 8328 8328 8328 0 0 0 0 9643762 2952093 14132 0 0 0 0 1002130 271246 462206 268678 0 6389088 5993744 282144 113200 0 387397 346808 30155 10434 617966 525269 61530 31167 0 7368 7368 30100 30100 0 0 0 170340 147054 23286 29472 23346 2760 3366 14841 3948 10893 596148 414701 181447 0 381073 257472 123601 283606 253904 29427 275 0 0 48373 48373 0 34519 22438 12081 89124 58385 30739 CONTRACT SERVICES 979547 813271 164701 1575 AGENCY FEES 861723 861723 SUPPLIES 541586 510197 22324 9065 MISCELLANEOUS 70728 50261 16932 3535 100465 17220 52232 31013 12635594 10570987 1592299 472308 1320334 1126578 0 1068881 392169 497541 199920 0 0 0 0 9588 4010 1800623 1705226 129591 95397 423122 654 0 0 0 579434 285034 4028491 2103762 887277 636184 250000 250000 1600000 660142 375335 1797419 2861519 X 1797271 -1830863 433801 1073106 2231072 -757757 4028491 2103762 -2991832 33 2970 X false true X true false X 7064778 8352588 7232620 9080706 6677537 38408229 0 0 7064778 8352588 7232620 9080706 6677537 38408229 5915585 32492644 259 822 15728 27528 5804 50141 0 68386 68386 38526756 14878583 0.84340 0.80140 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1800623 1705226 95397 95397 RIGHT OF USE ASSET 285034 285034 OPERATING LEASE LIABILITY 375335 375335 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, 2025. 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, 2025, 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 false false false false false false false false false BYRON K SANDERS-thru 1124 President & CEO 173023 10394 7857 191274 DHRITI STOCKS CHIEF DEV OFF 140114 11429 8585 160128 ERIN OFFORD-FROM 824 President & CEO 185317 6264 8585 200166 GLENN BALDWIN-THRU 625 CFO 171914 6845 8585 187344 GREGORY MACPHERSON CHIEF BTI OFF 137745 9990 8585 156320 MUSTAPHA BEYDOUN COO-thru 5/24 79338 79234 158572 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The finance department reviews a draft of the Preparer's Form 990 in detail. Afterwards, a copy is sent to the board of directors for its review and comment prior to filing the return. The CFO then signs the return after considering board comments. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The conflict of interest disclosure statement is sent to officers, directors and key employees annually. The organization's bylaws include a conflict of interest policy. A designated group ensures receipt of the disclosure statements and addresses any issues as needed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b 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, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents, policies and financial statements are available upon request. Big Thought Endowment Fund 1409 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD 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