Kansas · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,014,656 to it, the largest being Finnup Foundation ($319,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $10k
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide children facing adversity in finney and kearny counties with strong and enduring, professionally supported one to one relationships that change their lives for the better.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To aid children between the ages of 5-17 from single parent, grandparent, and foster families, where appropriate, in their growth into healthy and functional adult members of society; to assist these children in their social, emotional, and character development through techniques in human service developed and utilized by the corporation, big brothers big sisters of america, and other lay and professional persons; and to provide selected special services to the families of these children as needed.
$99,266 spent51% of program spendingTo provide ongoing supportive services to volunteers big brothers and big sisters who have signficant influence in the lives of children.
$58,236 spent30% of program spendingTo join with other organizations providing human services to children and their families in creating a climate of maximal human growth and development through common research, education, and action.
$37,059 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,561.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19k to $103k (+442%).
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 50% · 2018 48% · 2019 33% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 30% · 2023 14% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Tammy Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $71k → $126k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Finney and Kearny Counties 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 Finney and Kearny Counties Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Finney and Kearny Counties Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% — 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
100% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
62% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Finney and Kearny Counties 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties 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 Finney and Kearny Counties Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,014,656 to it, the largest being Finnup Foundation ($319,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,014,656 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc?
- Finnup Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $319,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 9 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