Start Small Think Big Inc

Analysis

Start Small Think Big Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Start Small Think Big Inc reported income of $3.6m and spending of $5.2m, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $3.6m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Start Small Think Big Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc ($3.6m), Otterbein Green Hills Foundation ($3.6m) and American Indians in Texas - at the Spanish Colonial Missions ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $547k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $117k, net assets of $4.2m. It reported 12 employees.