Ohio · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC (Ohio) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,278,276 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($1,952,849). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc does
Mission
Big brothers big sisters of greater cincinnati (bbbsgc) provides evidence-based mentoring programs that match youth facing adversity with trained, caring adult mentors. Through both community-based and site-based programming, bbbsgc delivers professionally supported relationships that promote positive youth development, improve academic outcomes, and strengthen social-emotional skills. Serving youth across the 13-county greater cincinnati region, bbbsgc remains focused on expanding access to high-quality mentoring opportunities and ensuring measurable, long-term impact for every child served.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big brothers big sisters of greater cincinnati (bbbsgc) provides professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring programs that match youth facing adversity with trained adult mentors (bigs). Services are delivered through community-based and site-based models, including school-day and after-school programming, workplace-based mentoring, and group mentoring experiences. Key programmatic initiatives include school-based mentoring programs such as lunch buddies and after-school mentoring, workplace exposure programs like beyond school walls, and targeted interventions such as gamechangers, which supports youth involved in or at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system. Bbbsgc also extends impact beyond the match through big futures, a post-secondary readiness and success initiative that supports youth in achieving educational and career goals. Each mentoring match is supported by professional staff who provide ongoing coaching, safety monitoring, and evidence-based guidance to ensure quality and longevity. Youth in bbbsgc programs demonstrate improved academic engagement, stronger social-emotional skills, and reduced engagement in risky behaviors. Services are delivered…
$1,817,464 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,817,464.
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 $1.7M to $2.6M (+57%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jessica Esterkamp
President & CEO
Board chair
Joy Whinery
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $625k → $806k.
13 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GREATER CINCINNATI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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 GREATER CINCINNATI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 GREATER CINCINNATI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 30% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — 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
46% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
72% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC's grant income comes from Ohio 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 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.
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC (Ohio) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,278,276 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($1,952,849). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,278,276 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $1,952,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 57 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