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BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC

BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,069 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ($570,709). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$218k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$682k
Net assets
$350k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Hereford Texas Inc does

Mission

Make a positive difference in the lives of at-risk youth through the professionally supported one-to-one match relationship with a caring adult mentor therby empowering these children to achieve their highest potential.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Make a positive difference in the lives of at-risk youth through the professionally supported one-to-one match relationship with a caring adult mentor thereby empowering these children to achieve their highest potential.

    $210,987 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $210,987.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2018 Revenue 126 ($159k) Expenses 117 ($149k) Net assets 176 ($23k)2019 Revenue 117 ($148k) Expenses 130 ($165k) Net assets 2123 ($282k)2020 Revenue 144 ($181k) Expenses 128 ($162k) Net assets 2263 ($300k)2021 Revenue 167 ($211k) Expenses 141 ($179k) Net assets 3880 ($514k)2022 Revenue 134 ($168k) Expenses 167 ($213k) Net assets 3273 ($434k)2023 Revenue 136 ($171k) Expenses 179 ($228k) Net assets 2928 ($388k)2024 Revenue 173 ($218k) Expenses 202 ($257k) Net assets 2639 ($350k)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (202)Net assets (2639)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $24k to $282k (+1082%).

$14k
$24k
$282k
$301k
$515k
$434k
$388k
$350k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 15% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$10k
’18
−$17k
’19
$19k
’20
$32k
’21
−$44k
’22
−$57k
’23
−$39k
’24
1.8
months of
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.

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Listed1010101010101011
Joined·+0+3+0+0+2+0+1
No longer listed·0300200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $113k.

Funder
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total
funders
2
2
3
2
3
3
3
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 HEREFORD TEXAS 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 HEREFORD TEXAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 HEREFORD TEXAS INC.

84%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 88% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 71% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 13%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 HEREFORD TEXAS INC?
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,069 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ($570,709). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $682,069 in grants to BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR is the largest funder on record, with $570,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC find more funders?
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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 5 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