New Mexico · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,849,981 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($1,835,502). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico Inc does
Mission
To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Service delivery - served the nine county area of bernalillo, chaves, cibola, sandoval, socorro, torrance, san juan, otero, and valencia counties, matched 990 children ages 6 through 17 with mentors in professionally supported one-to-one relationships. Partnership development - the recruitment of bigs/littles and corporate partners to our program. We also support match activities and retention by developing match discounts, and low cost or no cost activities for the bigs/littles in our program.
$1,902,576 spentof which $7,250 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,902,576.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $930k to $1.5M (+65%).
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: 2018 45% · 2019 53% · 2020 50% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 38% · 2024 59% · 2025 47%. 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 8 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
Brenda Dorsey
Interim CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $341k → $443k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NEW MEXICO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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 CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 NEW MEXICO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 45% · 2019 66% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 50% — 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
50% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 NEW MEXICO INC
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 Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bbbs of Nm Donation Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,849,981 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($1,835,502). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,849,981 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $1,835,502 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing