Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being MAZAR FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Better Business Bureau Inc does
Mission
To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization serves their communities as follows: provide reports on business firms that are helpful to consumers. The better business bureau system responds to millions of such inquiries a year, as well as providing information about charity groups and organizations. The bureau provides a third party arbitration program to resolve consumer/business disputes.
$1,877,043 spent$5,000,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,877,043.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.0M to $5.8M (+15%).
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Kevin J Sanders
President & CEO
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.
From the IRS filings of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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.
Against its field
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC's revenue fell 15% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU 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 BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being MAZAR FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC?
- MAZAR FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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