Tennessee · Public charity
Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn
Big brothers big sisters' mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
- $533k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $507k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $177,285
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $289,461
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $507k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $3.5M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $510k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $489k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $167k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $328k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $160k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $236k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dream Big Fund Trust | $3,000,000 | 1 | 98% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee Inc | $1,334,247 | 8 | 15% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga | $823,944 | 8 | 15% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc | $571,763 | 6 | 33% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville | $177,322 | 7 | 20% |
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.
Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn
- How much does Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn give?
- Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn reported 3 itemized grants totaling $507,401, out of $532,904 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (91%), Human Services (5%), Crime & Legal (3%).
- Who are Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dream Big Fund Trust ($3.0M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee Inc ($1.3M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga ($824k).
- Does Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn based?
- Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn is based in TN.
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