Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,237 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($430,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $605k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $871k
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Big Brothers Big Sisters, nationally, has been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin mentors over 500 children, ages 6 through 18, in the Wisconsin counties of Eau Claire, Chippewa, Dunn, St. Croix, and Taylor Counties. Of the children matched, about 70% participate through our community based mentoring program and 30% participate in our school/site based mentoring program.
$415,671 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $415,671.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $745k to $932k (+25%).
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 0% · 2021 34% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Travis Austad
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $50k → $202k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $398k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN 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 NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 33% · 2019 80% · 2020 70% · 2021 43% · 2022 74% · 2023 42% — 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
53% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 1 related entity
- Sporting World LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,237 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($430,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,065,237 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 23 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