Maine · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $908,080 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC ($164,194). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $464k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $908k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine does
Mission
Role models (bigs) in one-to-one friendships in seven counties throughout Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. They partner with parents, in conjunction with over 30 schools and hundreds of volunteers and generous partners in our community to help children have higher aspirations, greater confidence, better relationships, avoid risky behaviors and achieve greater educational sucess. The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth in Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Penobscot, Somerset, and Waldo counties. Our vision is all youth achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine (BBBSMM) changes the lives of over 500 youth facing adversity by providing meaningful positive mentoring relationships that ignite their greatest potential. BBSMM's nationally accredited mentoring program pairs children, ages 5-14 (Littles) with caring, responsible models (Bigs) in one-to one mentoring relationships. BBBSM partners with parents/guardians, volunteers, and others in the community and hold ourselves accountable for each child in our program achieving: higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships; as well as avoidance of risky behaviors and educational success. The majority of youth served by the organization are from low to moderate income families. BBBSMM partners with over 30 area schools and nearly 700 volunteers throughout Eastern, Central, and Coastal Maine to support children in the program.
$433,327 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $433,327.
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 2021 to 2022, from $453k to $251k (−45%).
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: 2021 10% · 2023 7%. 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 7 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
Edward Gould
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $79k → $70k.
3 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Mid-Maine’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 Mid-Maine has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 Mid-Maine.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 21% · 2019 21% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
73% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Big Sisters of Mid-Maine
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine: 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 Mid-Maine?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $908,080 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC ($164,194). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $908,080 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine?
- UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $164,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 37 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