Birthday Bash Box

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824776098
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
8325985276
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,959
Expenses
$69,364
Assets
$25,917
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Seante Johnson (Founder/CEO/Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Brianna Shaw (Secretary)
  • Seante Johnson (Founder/CEO/Board President)
  • Tiffany Henderson (Treasurer)

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

Birthday Bash Box exists to lessen the impact of poverty on education and social-emotional development by creating joyful birthday experiences for children in underserved communities. The organization provides personalized birthday boxes filled with gifts, books, and celebration items, using celebration as a gateway to literacy, confidence, and family connection.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Book Bash Borogram: Book Bash events are interactive literacy experiences where children participate in read aloud and hands-on activities and leave with multiple books that they chose to take home, including the book of the Day that is sometimes signed and read by the author. In 2025, Birthday Bash Box hosted two Book Bashes distributing hundreds of books to elementary age children. These events are intentionally designed to make reading joyful and engaging while reinforcing the connection between positive experiences and learning. Research supports that when children associate reading with fun, connection, and celebration, they are more likely to develop consistent reading habits. Families also participate, creating shared learning experiences that strengthen literacy at home.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.