Connecticut · Nonprofit
BBFG FOUNDATION INC
BBFG FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,500 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $321k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $0
What Bbfg Foundation Inc does
Mission
Helping to support uconn student athletes by providing income earning opportunities that assist charitable causes, including interactions with youths from low-income families in the state of connecticut for whom the student athletes serve as role models.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective september 2, 2025, bbfg foundaction inc. Was dissolved.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Bbfg foundation (bbfg) may provide tax-exempt charitable organizations with grants and student athlete in-kind contributions of sports and physical education, communication, marketing, speaking, event, and public relations services so that served organizations can expand the reach and effectiveness of their exempt activities, better serve their constituents, and better achieve their exempt purposes. By deploying intercollegiate athletes, bbfg's services will increase the constituent organziations' visibility and reach in their communities as well as provide unique athletic and physical education to beneficiaries served by constituent organziations. (see schedule o)raise awareness of the need of beneficiaries served by constituent organizations, attract donors and volunteers to constituent organizations, and enhance the constituent organizations' relationships among served populations. Examples of bbfg's services using the name, image, speaking, and likeness of intercollegiate athletes and intercollegiate athletes themselves include, but are not limited to, holding athletic skill camps and physical education events, conducting charitable activities and events, and providing the…
$1,297,682 spentof which $46,024 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,297,682.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $86k to $1.8M (+1945%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jared Thomas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BBFG FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BBFG FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BBFG FOUNDATION INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
85% of BBFG FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $113k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $645k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like BBFG FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BBFG FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BBFG FOUNDATION INC?
- BBFG FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,500 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BBFG FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $757,500 in grants to BBFG FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BBFG FOUNDATION INC?
- THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BBFG FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing