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BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO

BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,240 to it, the largest being Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc ($30,240). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$5.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Better Business Bureau of Sacramento does

Mission

BBBs mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. BBB accomplishes this mission by: Creating a community of trustworthy businesses. Setting standards for marketplace trust. Encouraging and supporting best practices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Review of current accredited businesses to ensure that each adhere to the bbb's accreditation standards which include a systematic review of advertising, and monitoring of state licensing requirements. Providing dispute or complaint resolution for consumers and businesses.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 96 ($2.5M) Expenses 93 ($2.5M) Net assets 101 ($4.1M)2019 Revenue 112 ($2.9M) Expenses 106 ($2.8M) Net assets 103 ($4.2M)2020 Revenue 105 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 105 ($4.3M)2021 Revenue 129 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 122 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 108 ($2.8M) Expenses 106 ($2.8M) Net assets 122 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 111 ($2.9M) Expenses 111 ($2.9M) Net assets 120 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 119 ($3.1M) Expenses 112 ($3.0M) Net assets 123 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (112)Net assets (123)

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 $4.3M to $5.0M (+16%).

$4.1M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$4.3M
$5.0M
$4.9M
$4.9M
$5.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$57k
’17
$40k
’18
$96k
’19
$64k
’20
$697k
’21
−$15k
’22
−$68k
’23
$133k
’24
16
months of
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

Lynn Conner

CEO

Board chair

Archie Milligan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1517181519171613
Joined·+5+1+0+4+2+4+0
No longer listed·3030453
03Who funds it

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 OF SACRAMENTO’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 OF SACRAMENTO's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO: 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 OF SACRAMENTO?
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,240 to it, the largest being Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc ($30,240). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,240 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO.
Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO?
Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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