Virginia · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,904 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($227,916). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $526k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $36k
What Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge Inc does
Mission
The mission of big brothers big sisters of the central blue ridge, inc. Bbbs is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Our vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bbbs believes that all young people deserve a positive support system to help them reach their full potential. Our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Our vision is that all youth achieve their full potential. In 2025 we served 81 young people and created 27 new matches. Bigs commit to spending at least one hour a week with their littles for a least 12 months. In 2025 our average match length increased to 47 months which is signficantly higher than the national average. Littles over the age of nine are surveyed annually with over 100% reporting an increase in educational experiences. Our littles are more likely to graduate high school and go to college and a reduction in attitudes toward risky behaviors.
$398,978 spent100% of program spendingOn an adjusted basis 84% of the organization's expenses were for programs. Based upon generally accepted accounting principles, programs comprised 76% of total expenditures, administrative costs 9% of total expenditures, and fundraising costs comprised 15% of total expenditures. Due to the nature of bbbs operations, whereby virtually all services delivered directly to clients are by volunteers, management belives this is misleading. Management calculates an adjusted functional expense on a different basis, utilizing the virginia rates identified by the value of volunteer time report published annually by independent sector. Taking an average number of "bigs" for 2025, multipled by an estimated 9 hours/month or 108 hours annually, times the $34.42/hour value for virginia volunteers in this report computes to $301,106 for 2025. Incorporating this value with generally accepted accounting principles program and total expenses, the adjusted program portion is 84%, administrative costs is 6% and fundraising costs is 10%. Management believes the adjusted fundraising portion to be a superior metric to that calculated under generally accepted accounting principles.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,978.
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 $100k to $335k (+234%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Molly Jackson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $42k → $191k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE 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
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
80% 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 BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
62% of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE 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 $428k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $629k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC?
- BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,904 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($227,916). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,057,904 in grants to BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $227,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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