Indiana · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,327,394 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,911,150). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is 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
Big brothers big sisters of northeast indiana has increased the number of matches from 849 in 2004 to 1,239 in 2025. Big brothers big sisters serves youth across 12 counties in indiana and michigan and specializes in placing positive adult role models within the community in relationships with children that need extra support and guidance. A majority of the children have a single parent household with an income of less than 30,000 and 15% have a parent that is incarcerated. This innovative work has earned a local and national reputation for excellence with awards such as: national agency of the year in 2006, 2009 and 2012 and nominated again for 2017. The better business bureau recognizes it as the first notforprofit to receive the torch award for notforprofit marketplace ethics and three of our very own mentors have won big of the year for the entire country.
$3,488,960 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,488,960.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $8.5M to $11M (+29%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 4% · 2023 20% · 2024 20% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Josette Rider
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $744k → $1.1M.
12 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 NORTHEAST INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 NORTHEAST INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 NORTHEAST INDIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 26% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 37% · 2022 80% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
53% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA 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 $4.4M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M 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.
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA 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 Indiana
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
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,327,394 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,911,150). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% 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 NORTHEAST INDIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $9,327,394 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,911,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 50 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