New Hampshire · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT (New Hampshire) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,510,868 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($1,070,709). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire and Vermont does
Mission
To create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. To build protective factors to combat the risk factors and adversity youth face.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mentored youth with adult role-model big brothers and big sisters, including providing match activities and ongoing support in both community and school/site-based mentoring programs.
$2,031,717 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,031,717.
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 2023 to 2024, from $677k to $1.1M (+68%).
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 26% · 2018 6% · 2019 16% · 2020 13% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 51% · 2024 36% · 2025 28%. 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 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
Stacy Kramer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $206k → $322k.
14 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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: $124k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermont). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
79% 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 47% · 2019 39% · 2020 44% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 39% — 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
52% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
61% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $260k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$260k
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 OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT: 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT (New Hampshire) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,510,868 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($1,070,709). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,510,868 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,070,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 38 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