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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,402 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ($349,351). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$310k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$845k
Net assets
$400k
11/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Va does

Mission

Benefit disadvantaged children.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Various program activities for the benefit of children facing adversity with strong and enduring professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

    $290,195 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $290,195.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($375k) Expenses 100 ($349k) Net assets 100 ($232k)2018 Revenue 98 ($367k) Expenses 106 ($369k) Net assets 99 ($230k)2019 Revenue 84 ($314k) Expenses 93 ($324k) Net assets 95 ($221k)2020 Revenue 88 ($329k) Expenses 89 ($311k) Net assets 103 ($239k)2021 Revenue 91 ($342k) Expenses 76 ($266k) Net assets 136 ($315k)2022 Revenue 95 ($355k) Expenses 82 ($288k) Net assets 164 ($381k)2023 Revenue 97 ($363k) Expenses 93 ($324k) Net assets 181 ($421k)2024 Revenue 83 ($310k) Expenses 93 ($324k) Net assets 172 ($400k)
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Revenue (83)Expenses (93)Net assets (172)

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 $243k to $319k (+31%).

$238k
$236k
$229k
$243k
$319k
$390k
$428k
$405k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 15%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$10k
’19
$18k
’20
$76k
’21
$67k
’22
$40k
’23
−$14k
’24
10
months of
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.

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Listed1618151515151718
Joined·+6+2+3+6+3+3+1
No longer listed·4536310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $99k → $105k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 VA’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 VA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 VA.

41%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 99% · 2019 55% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 41% — 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 VA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

MO
VA
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,402 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ($349,351). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $845,402 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $349,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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