· Public charity
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $58,738 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS BUTLER COUNTY | $53,615 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO | $46,919 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER MIAMI VALLEY | $39,677 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES | $36,933 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS GREATER CLEVELAND | $35,367 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL OHIO | $31,016 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SHELBY & DARKE CO | $18,791 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS EAST CENTRAL OHIO | $14,121 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SUMMITMEDINASTARK COUNTIES | $10,158 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LORAIN COUNTY | $8,475 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY | $7,161 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH EASTERN OHIO | $6,926 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO | $6,683 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
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.
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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC9× · 2017–2025 · $685k · revenue +94%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTLER COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $484k · revenue +34%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CYCOMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORINGgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $45 · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of area youth.
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.
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…
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.
Provide guidance, supervision, and care for disadvantaged children
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite power and promise of youth.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Creating and supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The organization provides quality volunteer and professional contract mentoring services in the black hills area, on a one to one basis for youth with limited parental support to assist them in achieving
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Appalachian Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTLER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SHELBY & DARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds MAV YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST OHIO YOUTH MENTORING ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF WARREN AND CLINTON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING ↗
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.
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
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 Central Ohio Inc 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.
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.