Texas · 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $121,430
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,070,701
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $638k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $448k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc | $4,251,629 | 8 | 24% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Inc | $3,327,302 | 8 | 33% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star Foundation | $2,225,035 | 6 | 48% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock Inc | $691,944 | 8 | 35% |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Hereford Texas Inc | $687,017 | 8 | 61% |
| Gulf Coast Big Brothers and Big Sisters Inc | $568,601 | 8 | 32% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso Inc | $487,311 | 8 | 7% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Texas Panhandle Inc | $205,393 | 5 | 30% |
Where it is load-bearing
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star
- How much does Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star give?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star reported 7 grants totaling $3,031,754 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (100%).
- Who are Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc ($4.3M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Inc ($3.3M), Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star Foundation ($2.2M).
- Does Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star based?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star is based in TX.
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