Minnesota · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,552,110 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,514,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn does
Mission
Big brothers big sisters of central minnesota creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. We serve young people across our region, matching them with caring mentors who provide guidance, friendship, and stability. We are committed to addressing community needs by strenghtening resilience, improving outcomes, and empowering youth to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In our 56th year of service, we matched over 500 youth with mentors, marking a 10-year high in youth served across our community-based and school/site-based programs. More than 90% of our youth reported improved confidence, stronger relationships, and better academic engagement. In 2025, we continued to build on long-term impact with new and expanded programming, partnerships, and resources:- we strengthened our focus on long-term impact by advancing our $10 million "for kids, forever" endowment campaign, aimed at securing mentoring services for generations to come.- bigs on campus, our award-winning mentoring model, brings littles to the campuses of st. Cloud state university, the college of saint benedict/saint john's university, and st. Cloud technical & community college to meet with mentors, tour academic departments, and envision their futures in higher education.- big partners, a collaboration with isd 742 and granite partners, pairs local high school students with business professionals to explore career pathways and post-secondary options.- over 200 high school students served as high school bigs/mentors, helping them develop leadership skills while making a real impact…
$1,130,395 spentof which $41,100 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,130,395.
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 $2.3M to $3.7M (+62%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 20% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 16%. 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
Jackie Scholl Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $174k → $345k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 CENTRAL MN’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 CENTRAL MN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 CENTRAL MN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 73% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 37% · 2022 89% · 2023 27% — 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
42% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
51% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN
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 Minnesota
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
44%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,552,110 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,514,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% 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 CENTRAL MN have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,552,110 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,514,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 27 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