Missouri · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,544,880 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($7,744,797). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri does
Mission
To partner with young people in their pursuit of a meaningful, stable and independent life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bbbsemo provides multiple programs and services designed to empower young people, ages 5-25, in partnership with volunteers, parents, school districts, and collaborative partner organizations across our service region. For 112 years, we have connected young people with mentors, encouraging them to remain in school and pursue successful futures. Each year, we engage 10,000+ young people through the following programs and initiatives:continued on schedule oyouth mentoring - our mentoring programs include: (1) one-to-one mentoring - one child is matched with one volunteer mentor; (2) group mentoring - up to 20 youth are matched with a bbbsemo professional staff mentor and meet in groups at their schools; and (3) upward mentoring - up to 15 youth are matched with professional mentors and meet regularly within their communities (one-on-one and group interactions).alumni mentoring - continuous support for young adults, 18-25, who graduate from our mentoring programs, then opt to remain connected with bbbsemo as they transition to post-secondary education, employment, and/or the military. Abctoday schools - staff work directly with parents, schools, and community partners, empowering…
$5,577,839 spentof which $24,991 as grants$20,400 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,577,839.
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 $21M to $26M (+23%).
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 38% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 22% · 2023 42% · 2024 49% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kristen Slaughter
CEO/president
Board chair
Dan Isom
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.8M.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 EASTERN MISSOURI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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 EASTERN MISSOURI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 EASTERN MISSOURI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 32% · 2019 37% · 2020 42% · 2021 44% · 2022 76% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
96% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M 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 EASTERN MISSOURI
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- 501 North Grand Condominium Association · corp_trust
- Abctoday Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,544,880 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($7,744,797). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $22,544,880 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI?
- AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $7,744,797 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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