Think Forever
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922938662
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Ladera Ranch, CA, US
- Phone
- 9497422640
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,187
- Expenses
- $129,756
- Assets
- $29,586
- Liabilities
- $2,448
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE MAYERS (President)
People named in this filing
- JOE MAYERS (President)
- STEVEN NAMEROFF (Treasurer)
- LESLIE MAYERS (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 inspire eternal perspective through the art of storytelling.
What it reported doing in 2025
The development of screen plays, podcast scripts, social media content and other digital and print media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 80
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -31.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.