Florida · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America (Florida) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,912,404 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($29,430,000). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 224
- Grants received
- $94M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America does
Mission
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the nation's premier mentoring organization. The Organization's vision is that all children achieve success in life. The Organization's mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. (continued on Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Agency Service, Support and Technology BBBSA provides support to its Affiliates through grants, training, Board development, marketing, compliance, and technology. Grants are awarded to Affiliates from foundations, corporate partners, and federal sources. Grants from BBBSA support allow the Affiliates to expand programs, start new programs, serve more populations, and strengthen the services they provide. With more than 250 Affiliates across the country, providing training on best practices, leadership, program development, and Board development is key to ensuring quality service across the Federation. Marketing support helps Affiliates safeguard the brand so it can endure into the future. BBBSA uses a nationwide database system that manages Big-Little matches and measures the impact on the children we serve.
$29,383,341 spentof which $14,437,343 as grants$5,888,932 earned by the program56% of program spendingProgram Implementation In collaboration with Affiliates, BBBSA develops programs that allow us to provide mentoring services to more children and to strengthen those services and tools to evaluate our impact on the children we serve.
$18,769,650 spentof which $14,437,344 as grants36% of program spendingChild Safety, Standards and Compliance BBBSA's top priority is to ensure child safety throughout the Big Brothers Big Sisters network of affiliated agencies. Each agency has independent and sole management responsibility of its safety procedures through adherence to nationally adopted standards of best practices in youth protection.
$4,262,919 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,415,910.
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 $21M to $57M (+169%).
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 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 35% · 2020 25% · 2021 41% · 2022 19% · 2023 32% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Artis Stevens
CEO
Board chair
Michael Carrel
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $6.0M.
37 of 224 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $14M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bbbsa Charitable Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America raised.
From the IRS filings of Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 224 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 America leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 49% · 2019 32% · 2020 15% · 2021 31% · 2022 68% · 2023 17% — 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
30% of Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 Of America draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 41 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 America receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $92.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$90.0M
- Department of Labor$2.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$328k
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 America
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- BBBSA Charitable Fund LLC · disregarded
- Bbbsa Charitable Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America: 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 America?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America (Florida) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,912,404 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($29,430,000). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America have?
- IRS filings report 224 organizations giving $93,912,404 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America, 108 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 224 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