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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359,187 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ($1,084,059). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$528k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$209k
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Siouxland does

Mission

Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible, screened adult volunteers.

    $282,372 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $282,372.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($357k) Net assets 100 ($180k)2018 Revenue 110 ($341k) Expenses 94 ($337k) Net assets 102 ($184k)2019 Revenue 125 ($387k) Expenses 109 ($389k) Net assets 101 ($182k)2020 Revenue 106 ($327k) Expenses 101 ($360k) Net assets 83 ($149k)2021 Revenue 158 ($487k) Expenses 102 ($365k) Net assets 151 ($271k)2022 Revenue 124 ($385k) Expenses 132 ($470k) Net assets 103 ($186k)2023 Revenue 149 ($460k) Expenses 143 ($509k) Net assets 76 ($136k)2024 Revenue 148 ($457k) Expenses 120 ($428k) Net assets 91 ($164k)2025 Revenue 171 ($528k) Expenses 135 ($483k) Net assets 116 ($209k)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (135)Net assets (116)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $227k to $290k (+28%).

$196k
$202k
$201k
$227k
$290k
$228k
$178k
$201k
$249k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 19% · 2019 16% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$48k
’17
$4k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$33k
’20
$122k
’21
−$85k
’22
−$50k
’23
$28k
’24
$45k
’25
2.1
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

Kristie Arlt

Executive director

Board chair

Kari Winklepleck

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121113131313131313
Joined·+1+6+2+1+8+3+2+1
No longer listed·24218321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $138k → $116k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SIOUXLAND’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 SIOUXLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 SIOUXLAND.

80%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 77% · 2019 86% · 2020 78% · 2021 82% · 2022 99% · 2023 81% — 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

57% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

89% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
NE
GA
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND

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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 14%Fundraising 28%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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 SIOUXLAND?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359,187 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ($1,084,059). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,359,187 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND?
UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,084,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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