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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc

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

$368k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$31,016
Largest grant, FY2025
$58,738
Organizations funded a year
15 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc 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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$375k0%
FY202415$419k0%
FY202316$523k0%
FY202216$788k0%
FY202116$542k0%
FY202016$453k0%
FY201919$280k5%
FY201821$274k5%
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What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$4.0M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $684,501 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Ohio: $488,453 over 9y, 28% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc: $483,950 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland: $440,431 over 9y, 22% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley Inc: $327,472 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Licking & Perry Counties Inc: $323,484 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of West Central Ohio Inc: $248,202 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Shelby & Darke County Inc: $230,183 over 9y, 12% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc: $152,803 over 9y, 11% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Ohio: $117,002 over 9y, 13% of budgetBig Brothers - Big Sisters of Mahoning Valley Inc: $100,850 over 9y, 12% of budgetSouth Central Ohio Big Brothers Big Sisters Association: $99,504 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetBig Brothersbig Sisters of Lorain County: $94,775 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Ohio: $90,525 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Appalachian Ohio: $63,276 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetMav Youth Mentoring Inc: $11,618 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSoutheast Ohio Youth Mentoring: $8,036 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetBig Brothers and Sisters of Warren and Clinton Counties Inc: $5,854 over 2y, 11% of budgetTorchlight Youth Mentoring Alliance: $4,354 over 3y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of AmericaFL32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc

How much does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc give?
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc reported 14 grants totaling $367,590 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (100%).
Who are Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc ($685k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Ohio ($488k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc ($484k).
Does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc 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 of Central Ohio Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America, Edward Jones Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc based?
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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