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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. (Manitoba) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$431,421 to it, the largest being United Way Central Plains Inc. (C$137,681). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$144k
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
C$431k
Grants received
C$88k
Net assets
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%

Against its field

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$115k) Expenses 100 (C$105k) Net assets 100 (C$38k)2018 Revenue 91 (C$104k) Expenses 107 (C$113k) Net assets 76 (C$29k)2019 Revenue 104 (C$120k) Expenses 112 (C$118k) Net assets 80 (C$30k)2020 Revenue 142 (C$162k) Expenses 90 (C$95k) Net assets 257 (C$98k)2021 Revenue 114 (C$130k) Expenses 124 (C$130k) Net assets 256 (C$97k)2022 Revenue 97 (C$111k) Expenses 119 (C$125k) Net assets 218 (C$83k)2023 Revenue 113 (C$129k) Expenses 132 (C$139k) Net assets 192 (C$73k)2024 Revenue 126 (C$144k) Expenses 122 (C$129k) Net assets 233 (C$88k)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (122)Net assets (233)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 28% · 2022 19% · 2023 17% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$9k
’17
−C$9k
’18
C$2k
’19
C$67k
’20
−C$309
’21
−C$15k
’22
−C$10k
’23
C$15k
’24
5.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income fell C$38k → C$37k.

From the CRA filings of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc..

32%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 56% · 2019 43% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.

“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 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

54% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

56% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.'s grant income comes from Manitoba funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’23
Manitoba out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government revenue Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$14k
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  • 9% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Manitoba

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.?
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. (Manitoba) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$431,421 to it, the largest being United Way Central Plains Inc. (C$137,681). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$431,421 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc., 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.?
United Way Central Plains Inc. is the largest funder on record, with C$137,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc. find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Manitoba.

Play a game about who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains →

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register