Texas · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,322,371 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($900,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso Inc does
Mission
To make a positive difference in the lives of children and youth by providing responsible, caring, adult role models to serve as mentors and friends in one on one relationships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The youth mentoring program encompasses recruiting, screening and training volunteer mentors; matching the mentor with an at risk child, focusing on the skills, interests and needs of the mentor and child; supervising and supporting the match to promote friendship and broaden the horizon of the child; mentoring the match through regualr contact with mentor, thild, child's family. There is no charge of the services. Youth in the program who are matched for one year demonstrated an improvement in social acceptance, scholatic compentency, educaiton expectations, grades, risk behavior, and parental trust. The data is based on youth's completion of the survey before and during mentoring.
$1,160,390 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,160,390.
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 $444k to $1.2M (+179%).
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 67% · 2018 72% · 2019 61% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 10% · 2024 23%. 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 7 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
Bobbi Jo Ortiz
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 17 funders, grant income rose $33k → $533k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 EL PASO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 EL PASO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 EL PASO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 24% · 2019 40% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 72% · 2023 19% — 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
64% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO 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
60% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO 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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$600k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,322,371 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($900,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,322,371 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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