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.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc

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· 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.

$368k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$59k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $29k
$10k–50k8 grants · $233k
$50k–250k2 grants · $112k

$31,016

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 21 repeat orgs$45 to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$45

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+51%

Still filing today

81%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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.

Backed again, and grew

BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $685k · revenue +94%
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTLER COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $484k · revenue +34%
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +24%

Funded once

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COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORINGgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $45 · revenue +51%

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.

04Its field

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.

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 Palm Beach & Martin Counties Inc

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.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc

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…

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Heart of Georgia Inc

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.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of St Lucie Indian River and Okeechobee Counties I

Provide guidance, supervision, and care for disadvantaged children

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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 East Tennessee Inc

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

Youth Development

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg Rockingham County Inc

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 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 and Big Sisters O

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

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island Inc

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Appalachian Ohio; 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.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/20

Grantees still filing

15/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,818,108Youth Development$1,192,365

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home