Texas · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,258,084 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ($3,327,302). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Inc does
Mission
To help children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with measurable impact.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Big brothers big sisters of central texas (bbbs) one-to-one mentoring program creates safe, quality, professionally supported relationships between caring, trained, volunteer, adult mentors/bigs and at-risk youth/littles (age 6 and up). The agency matches bigs and littles based on personal criteria like gender, ethnicity, language, location, experiences, and interest. Matches participate in one-to-one activities a minimum of 3 times a month, on evenings and weekends. Bbbs also arranges group activities designed to provide specialized support and curriculum.
$1,738,694 spent$62,824 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,738,694.
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 2025 to 2026, from $4.1M to $0 (−100%).
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 31% · 2018 26% · 2019 31% · 2020 34% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 43% · 2024 41% · 2025 3% · 2026 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $1.2M.
12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $400k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for Big Brothers Big Sisters). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 TEXAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 TEXAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 35% · 2019 35% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% — 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
48% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC'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
61% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 TEXAS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Foundation for Big Brothers Big Sisters · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,258,084 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ($3,327,302). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $8,258,084 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR is the largest funder on record, with $3,327,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 43 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