Virginia · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,159,781 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($2,285,249). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $374k
What Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc does
Mission
Creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth throughout Central and Eastern Virginia. BBBS provides professionally supported community based and site based mentoring, workforce readiness programming, and group mentoring opportunities that connect young people with caring adult mentors and positive role models. Services include volunteer recruitment, screening, training, youth enrollment, thoughful matching, ongoing case management, and outcome evaluation to ensure safe, high quality mentoring relationships. Through these programs, the organization helps young people strenthen social-emotional skills, improve educational outcomes, build positive relationships, and develop the confidence and resilience needed to succeed in school, work, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big Brothers Big Sisters provides youth with caring, consistent, and compassionate mentors. Mentors (Bigs) and youth (Littles) focus on individual goals for positive youth development: build social skills, increase academic achievement, and create healthy lifestyles. In 2022, over 800 lives were impacted throughout Greater Richmond, Greater Virginia Peninsula, Hampton Roads, and Tri-Cities. Youth are served through Community-Based Mentoring, Site-Based (School-Based) Mentoring. 2022 results show that while youth continued to navigate the effects of COVID, mentoring services proved to be impactful. Over 75% of youth reported stronger peer relationships, over 90% of Littles stayed on track or improved academically and 19% of Littles experienced fewer depressive symptoms.
$553,806 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $553,806.
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 2024 to 2025, from $566k to $430k (−24%).
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: 2020 14% · 2023 26% · 2025 13%. 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
Ellie Martinez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $371k → $451k.
10 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 77% · 2019 34% · 2020 73% · 2021 49% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS 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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS 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 INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,159,781 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($2,285,249). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $4,159,781 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $2,285,249 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS 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 67 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing