· Public charity
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star
To enrich, encourage and empower children to reach their highest potential through safe, positive, one-to-one mentoring relationships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $623k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BBBS OF SOUTH TEXAS | $923,886 |
| BBBS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $698,023 |
| BBBS of Lubbock | $155,715 |
| BBBS LONESTAR FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| BBBS of Hereford Texas | $130,682 |
| BBBS GULF COAST | $103,160 |
| BBBS OF EL PASO | $83,238 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +83%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +9% · 33% of their budget
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +63% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of area youth.
The mission of big brothers big sisters is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide children facing adversity with safe, strong, and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever
To help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact. this is achieved by matching children with adults in mentoring relationships, providing children with companionship…
Big brothers big sisters of mississippi previously recruited adults to work with children one-on-one and act as their mentor. these volunteers were supervised by trained professionals who assess the growth & development of the children.
The mission of big brothers big sisters is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth, helping them achieve their full potential.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and potential of youth. our vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The organization matches adults in the community with children who want guidance and a relationship with an adult.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.