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BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC

BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,657 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ($395,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$414k
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
$996k
Grants received
$527k
Net assets
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($294k) Expenses 100 ($285k) Net assets 100 ($379k)2018 Revenue 112 ($330k) Expenses 115 ($329k) Net assets 100 ($381k)2019 Revenue 88 ($260k) Expenses 116 ($329k) Net assets 82 ($312k)2020 Revenue 126 ($370k) Expenses 112 ($319k) Net assets 96 ($363k)2021 Revenue 117 ($345k) Expenses 124 ($353k) Net assets 94 ($355k)2022 Revenue 119 ($350k) Expenses 119 ($338k) Net assets 95 ($359k)2023 Revenue 151 ($444k) Expenses 118 ($336k) Net assets 123 ($464k)2024 Revenue 141 ($414k) Expenses 122 ($348k) Net assets 139 ($527k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (122)Net assets (139)

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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 19% · 2023 19%. 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.

$9k
17
$2k
18
$69k
19
$51k
20
$8k
21
$12k
22
$108k
23
$66k
24
4.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $174k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)47% 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 & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 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 & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC.

40%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 42% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 47%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

50% of BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

89% of BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
IL
WI
IN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 25%Fundraising 20%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 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 BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC?
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,657 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ($395,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $995,657 in grants to BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC?
UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $395,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 15funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing