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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,618 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($259,672). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$495k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$401k
Grants received
$199k
Net assets
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,796 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($600k) Expenses 100 ($185k) Net assets 100 ($415k)2021 Revenue 71 ($425k) Expenses 219 ($405k) Net assets 105 ($436k)2022 Revenue 78 ($470k) Expenses 310 ($571k) Net assets 76 ($318k)2023 Revenue 86 ($516k) Expenses 295 ($544k) Net assets 71 ($294k)2024 Revenue 83 ($495k) Expenses 326 ($601k) Net assets 48 ($199k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (83)Expenses (326)Net assets (48)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 2% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,235 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$415k
20
$20k
21
$101k
22
$28k
23
$105k
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $91k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA’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 NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

86% 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 NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

65%
largest funder
79%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2022 61% · 2023 72%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

38% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.

IL
MA
PA
FL

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

20
21
22
23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 7%Fundraising 8%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: 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 NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,618 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($259,672). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $400,618 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA?
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $259,672 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing