· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $454k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BBBS LONESTAR FOUNDATION | $1,070,701 |
| BBBS OF SOUTH TEXAS | $979,357 |
| BBBS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $522,015 |
| BBBS GULF COAST | $121,430 |
| BBBS of Hereford Texas | $116,308 |
| BBBS OF EL PASO | $109,828 |
| BBBS of Lubbock | $106,115 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +83%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +561% · 48% of their budget
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $692k · revenue +30% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of area youth.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
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 provide children facing adversity with safe, strong, and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever
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 create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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…
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The mission of big brothers big sisters is to make a positive difference in the lives of children, who are facing emotional, social and academic challenges. through professional-supported relationships with a caring adult, big brothers big…
The organization matches adults in the community with children who want guidance and a relationship with an adult.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. BBBS is accountable for enrolled youthbuilding socio-emotional competencies, increasing academic achievement, and creating healthy…
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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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