How much did Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America grant in FY2025?

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America reported 139 itemized grants totaling $20,950,555, out of $28,874,687 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 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

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the nation's premier mentoring organization.

$29M

Granted FY2025still arriving

139

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.2M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$113MHuman Services$17MCommunity Improvement$7.4MHealth$619kReligion$31k

02FY2025 · 139 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 139 grants below total $20,950,555 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,874,687 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,924,132 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $147k
$10k–50k37 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k61 grants · $8.4M
$250k+21 grants · $11M

$84,088

Median grant

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BBBS of New York City Inc	$1,180,997
BBBS of Eastern Massachusetts	$1,065,907
BBBS of Metropolitan Chicago	$999,660
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star	$841,414
BBBS of Kentuckiana Inc	$681,953
BBBS of New Hampshire	$598,898
BBBS of Orange County	$581,192
BBBS of Coastal & Northern New Jersey	$564,150
BBBS OF METRO ATLANTA INC	$508,067
Kansas BBBS Inc	$474,543
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami	$473,309
BBBS of Greater Los Angeles	$439,301
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region	$427,862
BBBS of Acadiana Inc	$411,829
BBBS of Greater Birmingham Inc	$364,251

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 (FY17–25, $803k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

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.

$132M · 160 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

160 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160

Total granted

$132M

$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+14%

Still filing today

88%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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

FS
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +248% · 81% of their budget
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR
7× · 2018–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +95%
CA
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
6× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +65%

Funded once

BC
BBBSA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $4.6M · 81% of their budget
BB
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC
one grant, 2023 · $66k · revenue -2%
BO
BBBS OF SOUTHCENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
one grant, 2017 · $51k

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 of Kennebec Valley

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 of Manitowoc County Inc

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

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ba Brunswick

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 Montana

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 Metropolitan Detroit

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 of Mid-Maine

Role models (bigs) in one-to-one friendships in seven counties throughout Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. They partner with parents, in conjunction with over 30 schools and hundreds of volunteers and generous partners in our community…

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ozaukee County Inc

Creating and supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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Big Brothers & Sisters of Butte

Big brothers big sisters is the only prevention program in montana proven to affect a broad range of social issues. program evaluations consistently show that after entering the program, children are less likely to become delinquent, use…

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Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region

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 Services Inc

Big brothers big sisters services, inc. (the organization) is a private, nonprofit corporation chartered in north carolina in 1976 and is a member of big brothers big sisters of america. its purpose is to provide children facing adversity…

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Montana

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Services of Westchester Inc. 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 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%8/203

the rest of the field

13%

240,388/1,819,362

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.

04the grantee network

195 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 195 of the 203 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

178/195

Grantees still filing

124/195

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$97,816,090Youth Development$37,093,993Crime & Legal$2,167,209Human Services$839,486Health$307,605Religion$266,481Philanthropy$114,871

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 IncGA81.6× affinity46 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 of Central Ohio Inc · Tickets for Kids Foundation · The Papa John's Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Gap Foundation · Global Impact · Panera Bread Foundation Inc · The Jcpenney Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star

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 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

105report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines