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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,290 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($18,887). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$534k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$79k
Net assets
$219k
4/11 repeat funders
01What it does

What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County Inc does

Mission

Serving johnson county (iowa) youth ages 6 to 18 by providing 1:1 professionally supported mentorship

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing professionaly supported mentorship to youth ages 6-18

    $104,959 spentof which $259,880 as grants$318,380 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $104,959.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($431k) Expenses 100 ($209k) Net assets 100 ($222k)2025 Revenue 124 ($534k) Expenses 257 ($537k) Net assets 99 ($219k)
20242025
Revenue (124)Expenses (257)Net assets (99)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $222k to $219k (−1%).

$222k
$219k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 60% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$222k
’24
−$3k
’25
4.9
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.

Chief executive

Daleta Thurness

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed1614
Joined·+4
No longer listed·6
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $15k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 JOHNSON COUNTY 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 JOHNSON COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

79% 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 JOHNSON COUNTY INC.

24%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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.

Where its funders are

52% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $38k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 5 states.

WI
IA
NJ
MO
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 25%Fundraising 8%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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 JOHNSON COUNTY INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,290 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($18,887). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $79,290 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $18,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 11 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