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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,185 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ($60,784). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1k
Revenue FY2021
5
Funders on record
$107k
Grants received
$0
Net assets
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($113k)2018 Revenue 124 ($147k) Expenses 144 ($190k) Net assets 62 ($70k)2019 Revenue 121 ($144k) Expenses 148 ($195k) Net assets 16 ($18k)2020 Revenue 2 ($2k) Expenses 12 ($16k) Net assets 3 ($4k)2021 Revenue 1 ($1k) Expenses 4 ($5k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (1)Expenses (4)Net assets (0)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$43k
18
$52k
19
$14k
20
$4k
21
0.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $56k → $8k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% 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 EAST CENTRAL INDIANA 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 EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC.

57%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 44% · 2019 100%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

64% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC'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 $39k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN
FL

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

17
18
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 EAST CENTRAL INDIANA 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 Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

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

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,185 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ($60,784). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% 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 EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $107,185 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 5funders 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