Florida · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC (Florida) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,054,564 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,127,266). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami Inc does
Mission
Big brothers big sisters of miami is the premier mentoring organization that seeks to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Over 2600 youth were mentored through program including community based mentorship, school to work, bigs in blue, site based mentoring as well as group engagement and mentoring that takes place at bbbs hq. Summer and spring break camps area also offered. Programming focuses on academic enrichment, career pathways, digital literacy, health & wellness and music & the arts and over 1m in scholarships were provided to "littles"
$7,121,059 spentof which $630,544 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,121,059.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $34M (+80%).
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 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 26% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% · 2024 24% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Allan Prindle
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $762k → $2.1M.
16 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $14M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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 MIAMI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
75% 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 MIAMI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 25% · 2022 82% · 2023 24% — 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
45% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI 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
82% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 MIAMI INC's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 2 related entities
- Bbbs of Miami Foundation Inc · exempt
- Bbbs of Miami Institute Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC (Florida) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,054,564 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,127,266). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $16,054,564 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,127,266 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 89 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