The Big Give
Legal name: Big Give
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832228025
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Byron Center, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6168039492
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,534
- Expenses
- $56,153
- Assets
- $95,797
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDON STRATTON (President)
People named in this filing
- SARAH HUMPHREY (Director)
- BRANDON STRATTON (President)
- KALAH STRATTON (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide holiday gifts and essential care items to children in poverty in West Michigan, boosting their self-confidence and school engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided christmas gifts to children in need. Many individuals benefited from these gifts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.9%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 5
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 5.9% of revenue deployed · 4.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.