Bigger Conversation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274410893
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Columbia, MD, USA
Phone
4437990308
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Health Support Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$3,942
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Barbara Catlin (Executive Director)
  • Barbara Catlin (Board President)
  • Della Aubrey-Miller (Board Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Mary Ellen Rosche (Board Member)
  • Barbara Catlin (Executive Director)
  • Barbara Catlin (Board President)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Bigger Conversation, Inc. is dedicated to advancing healing and hopeful dialogue and service in society. The purpose of this dialogue is to build community, with an emphasis on conscious living and conscious dying. Bigger Conversation, Inc accomplishes this purpose by: 1. Sponsoring gatherings, classes, workshops and lectures, primarily in and around Columbia, Maryland; 2. Inviting and inspiring participation of all generations in the conversation, to promote collaboration and the creation of healing and hopeful dialogue, and to keep the old and wise conversations alive and expanding; 3. Initiating and supporting the education of participating individuals and community organizations with experiential, written, verbal, visual and on-line resources; 4. Encouraging the growth of life-affirming community programs. Our work currently is focused on the areas of: care for the caregivers, conscious aging, death and dying, and healing practices.

What it reported doing in 2023

Caregiver Wellness Circles (CWC) classes for family caregivers: Caregiver Wellness Circles were created by Bigger Conversation in 2012 to fill a gap we identified in support for family caregivers. The number of caregivers in Howard County and across the nation continues to grow (currently estimated at 56,000 in Howard County alone), along with the challenges they face as they adjust their lives to tend love ones. Caregiver Wellness Circles, a six-week program that provides healing support for caregivers with an emphasis on reducing stress and promoting wellness. At the end of six weeks, caregivers have created an individual self-care plan that allows caregivers to sustain their self care into the future. We conducted no Caregiver Wellness Circle in Howard County in 2018, because the County Program on Aging began offering a similar program, in part because of the success of our program. Given the positive feedback and evaluations from our CWCs, we plan to continue offering this support and also to develop a mentoring / train-the-trainer program to train others to offer CWCs across Maryland and the nation to expand this valuable support to family caregivers. This work was suspended during the pandemic and has not restarted.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2023
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.