Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,557,923 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($2,167,209). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc does
Mission
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our agencys primary programs include Community-Based, Site-Based, and Group Mentoring. In all of our programs we maintain a commitment to program quality. Each match is supported by a staff member helping matches to set and maintain goals as well as track outcomes and provide encouragement and general support when necessary. A. The Community-Based Program is the traditional mentoring model, in which bigs and littles meet for at least four hours each month in community settings. These one-to-one matches often visit restaurants and attend sporting events together and spend time at local libraries, parks, zoos, museums, and other recreational locations.B. The Site-Based Program includes programs that thake place in the schools or in workplaces. School-Based Programs generally occur at the Little's school during lunch time or after school. Bigs and Littles in School-Based Programs engage in structured activities together for one hour at a specified time and place throughout the school year. During the summer, our agency organized events and presents other opportunities for these matches to stay connected. Workplace mentoring is a program where secondary students travel to a specific…
$1,925,669 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,925,669.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $2.9M to $1.9M (−36%).
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: 2019 19% · 2020 17% · 2021 33% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% · 2024 39% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
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
Marc Bloomingdale
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $577k → $698k.
12 of 71 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 Greater Pittsburgh Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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 Pittsburgh Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Pittsburgh Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 54% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 38% · 2022 38% · 2023 46% — 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
40% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $378k on record.
- Department of Education$275k
- Department of Health and Human Services$103k
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 Greater Pittsburgh 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- BBBS PGH Endowment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,557,923 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($2,167,209). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $5,557,923 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $2,167,209 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 71 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