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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles

To help at-promise children and youth in los angeles reach their fullest potential through professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships that strengthen their social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral competencies. Youth served by bbbsla demonstrate improvement in their commitment to school and academic achievement,…

$377k
Granted FY2019
5
Itemized grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$124k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$23,796
Largest grant, FY2019
$28,992
States reached, FY2019
4
Total assets, FY2019
$11M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc$52,7881n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities$23,79610%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami Inc$23,79610%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region$23,79610%

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Greater Los Angeles

How much does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles give?
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles reported 5 itemized grants totaling $124,176, out of $377,326 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are Youth Development (100%).
Who are Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc ($53k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities ($24k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami Inc ($24k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles based?
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles is based in CA.

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 4 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $181k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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