Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc
Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $928,870 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($302,055). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,680 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Winona Foundation Thelocal
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Americaportfolio match
- Youth Collaboratory Incportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 9% · 2020 20% · 2021 11% · 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $109k → $68k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 7 Rivers Region 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 7 Rivers Region Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 7 Rivers Region Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 51% · 2021 47% · 2022 77% · 2023 66% — 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
40% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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 18 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Winona Foundation ThelocalWA · funds 21 organizations near you
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Collaboratory Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172localWI · funds 30 organizations near you
- Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neese Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Barton Law Memorial Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Communities Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1998 Jack Goldstein Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Ne Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stateline Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 7 Rivers Region 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $928,870 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($302,055). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $928,870 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc?
- GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $302,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region 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 18funders 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