Texas · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR (Texas) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,732,753 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($6,007,134). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star does
Mission
To enrich, encourage and empower children to reach their highest potential through safe, positive, one-to-one mentoring relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
BBBS provides mentoring services to facilitate the personal growth and development of the children in BBBS programs. BBBS recruits, screens, and educates volunteers to serve as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. BBBS provides continual monitoring of the match relationship to ensure a positive experience for both the Bigs and Littles. BBBS Lone Star's primary goal is to expand our reach and impact more children with our outcomes-achieving mission to prepare them to achieve their full potential. Mentoring not only connects a child with a positive adult role model, but it has proven to prepare students to graduate from high school ready to succeed. BBBS Lone Star served 5,486 children during 2025.
$14,712,967 spentof which $3,031,754 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,712,967.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $13M (+15%).
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 18% · 2018 13% · 2019 19% · 2020 37% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 37% · 2024 34% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Pierce Bush Thru 1125
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $4.9M.
26 of 170 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 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 LONE STAR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
72% 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 LONE STAR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 21% · 2019 26% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% — 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
51% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
76% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR is better cushioned than half of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $925k on record.
- Department of Justice$375k
- Department of Health and Human Services$300k
- Department of Education$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- BBBS LONE STAR Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: 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 LONE STAR?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR (Texas) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,732,753 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($6,007,134). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $31,732,753 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR, 105 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $6,007,134 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 170 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