How much did Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America grant in FY2024?

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America reported 125 grants totaling $31,408,811 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America based?

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is based in FL.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America

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· Public charity

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America

Since 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters has been matching youth in meaningful, enduring, professionally supported mentoring relationships with adult volunteers who defend their potential and help them achieve their biggest possible futures.

$31M

Granted FY2024

125

Grants

Communities

$4.6M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

chdphysicalwelfareempower

2020

jbbbsactivelyreach professionalyprofessionaly one-to-oneone-to-one measureableimpact matchesadults totaled

2021

empowersjbbbsactivelyreach fullfull one-to-onesacramentochd

2022

reach fullfull one-to-onesacramentochdempowermakingyoung

2023

one-to-one volunteercapitalchildreach fullfull one-to-oneenhanceevery

2024

section codecapitalchildlargestthousandsageguided

2025

supportscapitaljbbbsactivelyothersfull one-to-onelargest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $86k
$10k–50k22 grants · $583k
$50k–250k64 grants · $9.2M
$250k+26 grants · $17M

$131,486

Median grant

States reached

$37M

Total assets

Largest grants

BBBSA Charitable Foundation Inc$4,613,682
BBBS of Eastern Massachusetts$1,218,775
Kansas BBBS Inc$862,802
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star$830,370
BBBS of New York City Inc$697,617
BBBS of New Hampshire$639,863
BBBS of Metropolitan Chicago$575,948
BBBS of Coastal & Northern New Jersey$537,023
BBBS OF METRO ATLANTA INC$534,495
BBBS of South Texas$499,288
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami$485,602
BBBS of Central New Mexico Inc$448,716
BBBS of Orange County$431,389
BBBS of Oklahoma Inc$392,923
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region$382,071

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $636k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$100M · 154 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

154 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154

Total granted

$100M

$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+5%

Still filing today

88%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthReligionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

BB
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star
6× · 2018–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +106%
KB
Kansas BBBS Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +32% · 74% of their budget
BO
BBBS of Massachusetts Bay
4× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +63%

Funded once

BO
BBBS of the Central Blue Ridge Inc
one grant, 2023 · $66k · revenue +5%
BO
BBBS of Greater Columbia Inc
one grant, 2018 · $53k · 32% of their budget
BO
BBBS of the Bay Area-MI
one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Big Brothers Big Sisters

To partner with young people in their pursuit of a meaningful, stable and independent life.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of area youth.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the

Our mission: to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ba

To create and support one to one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationship that ignite the power and promise of youth

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of

To provide children facing adversity with safe, strong, and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever

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Big Brothers Big Sisters

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine (BBSMM) creates and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth in Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. The organization matches positive and caring role…

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Big Brothers Big Sisters

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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Big Brothers & Sisters of Butte

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported, one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%7/180

the rest of the field

11%

206,157/1,819,385

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

173 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

157/173

Grantees still filing

118/173

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$71,551,617Youth Development$30,245,684Crime & Legal$1,665,577Human Services$673,210Religion$203,919Health$120,668Philanthropy$22,796

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.

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.

Inspire Brands Foundation IncGA73.6× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Youth Collaboratory Inc · Big Brothers Big Sisters · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Big Brothers Big Sisters Association · Global Impact · The Gap Foundation · The Papa John's Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star · Clothes for Kids Sake Inc · Rsm US 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 organisation Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BBBS of Utah Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237041917 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BBBS of Utah Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America?

Find your warmest path to Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

173 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America?

More from the funding graph

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

173 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America?

More from the funding graph