Virginia · Nonprofit
Better Business Bureau
Better Business Bureau (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50 to it, the largest being DEKERNION FAMILY FNDTN AGY UMA ($50). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Better Business Bureau does
Mission
Promote the highest ethical relationship between business and the public, through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promote the highest ethical relationship between business and the public, through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.
$1,220,035 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,220,035.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.3M to $1.5M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Julie Wheeler
President & CEO
Board chair
James Wisler
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Better Business Bureau’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.
Where its funders are
Better Business Bureau draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Better Business Bureau
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Better Business Bureau: 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 Better Business Bureau?
- Better Business Bureau (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50 to it, the largest being DEKERNION FAMILY FNDTN AGY UMA ($50). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Better Business Bureau have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50 in grants to Better Business Bureau.
- Who is the largest funder of Better Business Bureau?
- DEKERNION FAMILY FNDTN AGY UMA is the largest funder on record, with $50 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Better Business Bureau find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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