Michigan · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,829 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($1,697,536). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Youth Collaboratory Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Inspire Brands Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $249k → $307k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BERRIEN AND CASS 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 BERRIEN AND CASS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 BERRIEN AND CASS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 64% · 2021 78% · 2022 71% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Incshared fundersportfolio matchOH · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Collaboratory Incshared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Inspire Brands Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchGA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Saslaw Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Panera Bread Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dito Devcar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitcch in Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unilever United States Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toomer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Berrien Community Foundation Incshared fundersMI · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Jackson County Community Children's Services FundlocalMO · funds 123 organizations near you
- Michigan Gateway Community Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
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 BERRIEN AND CASS 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 BERRIEN AND CASS 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 BERRIEN AND CASS INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,829 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($1,697,536). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,205,829 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $1,697,536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 6funders 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