Texas · Nonprofit
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,675 to it, the largest being MECHIA FOUNDATION ($6,375). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Better Business Bureau does
Mission
Bbb's mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. Bbb accomplishes this mission by:- developing measures, programs, and services for the protection of the general public- encouraging and supporting best practices by engaging with and educating consumers and businesses- celebrating marketplace role models- calling out and addressing substandard marketplace behavior- creating a community of trustworthy businesses and charities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The bbb promotes a marketplace where buyers and consumers can trust each other through business reporting and accreditation of more than 15,000 accredited businesses.
The bbb provides consumer protection through education, consumer warnings, alternative dispute resolution services, advertising monitoring for truth and accuracy, and business reviews.
Bbb provides consumers with reliable business information through bbb search, helping them find ethical, community-focused partners, request quotes, and provide free business reviews. The bbb provides approved accredited businesses with business best practices, and support through enhanced business profiles, and marketing and promotional service offerings.
Earned over $6.3 million in media coverage value, showcasing bbb's leadership in marketplace trust across seven major texas regions. Expanded partnership with the nfl alumni association, hosting the small business training camp series. Led military and veteran outreach initiatives through bbb military line and military makeover partnership. Supported 11.4m website visits and 7.7m page views by consumers honored as one of the best non-profits to work for in the united states by the non-profit times honored as one of the best places to work for in texas by austin american-statesman
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $13M (+11%).
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 72% · 2021 36% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Wade Lombard
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $800 → $2k.
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.
How concentrated its funding is
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Better Business Bureau Education Foundation · exempt
- Heart of Texas Business Services Inc · corp_trust
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,675 to it, the largest being MECHIA FOUNDATION ($6,375). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,675 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU?
- MECHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,375 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 Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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