Florida · Nonprofit
THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC
THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,995,955 to it, the largest being TAMPA BAY AREA CREDIT UNION FOR KIDS INC ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Think Big for Kids Inc does
Mission
Think big for kids is breaking the cycle of poverty by providing middle and high school students with career opportunities, mentorship, and job readiness training to excel in today's workforce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Think big for kids is a national non-profit that partners with companies from diverse industries to provide the awareness, guidance, and support young people need to set and achieve their post-graduation goals. Our unique "three pillars" approach incorporates career exploration, mentorship, and job readiness and placement. We've developed a programmatic roadmap that first engages kids during the critical middle school years and supports them throughout high school and into young adulthood. Continued on schedule oduring the program, students learn about career opportunities and work with experienced mentors to pursue their educational and professional goals. As they approach graduation, we offer work placement, internships, and scholarships to help them pursue on-the-job training, trade school certification, or a 2 to 4-year college degree. To further our mission to break the cycle of poverty, we work with our partners to connect graduates to jobs they're passionate about after completing their education.founded by tech entrepreneur tony dibenedetto, the organization works with business partners and like-minded organizations to develop kids' untapped potential. In 2025 we severed…
$1,179,799 spentof which $526,482 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,179,799.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $3.3M (+59%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 30% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Amy Alley
Executive director/secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $213k → $333k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $895k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC?
- THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,995,955 to it, the largest being TAMPA BAY AREA CREDIT UNION FOR KIDS INC ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,995,955 in grants to THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC?
- TAMPA BAY AREA CREDIT UNION FOR KIDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing