Little Big Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834623568
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3035883296
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,145
- Expenses
- $60,432
- Assets
- $27,770
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- GAYLE NOSAL (BOARD CHAIR)
- ABHINAV KHANAL (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Little big fund wants to empower social change visionaries with the understanding that fundraising is not daunting but rather, doable. Whether working for an existing organization or for one they are building, students of little big fund experience an antidote to the weightiness of asking for money. They get the tools, skills, peer support, best practices, and real-world experience they need to take control of the fundraising beast before they leave school. In their culminating project, students write a grant, submit it to a review committee, and defend the grant proposal in person to a grant committee of interested funders.
What it reported doing in 2024
We connect a diverse network of philanthropists and non-profit leaders through monthly convening's and an annual fundshift event. We also provide mentorship to early stage social impact leaders through real-world grants and professional literature about fundraising.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.