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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,636,989 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ($4,251,629). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
69
Grants received
$9.6M
Net assets
$7.8M
34/69 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships that change their lives for the better forever.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We support children in one-to-one mentoring relationships. From january 1st to december 31st, 2025 there were 1,621 youth with mentors.

    $3,152,341 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,152,341.

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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 98 ($2.5M) Expenses 86 ($2.6M) Net assets 97 ($5.3M)2019 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 90 ($2.7M) Net assets 95 ($5.2M)2020 Revenue 104 ($2.6M) Expenses 85 ($2.5M) Net assets 97 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 103 ($2.6M) Expenses 79 ($2.4M) Net assets 103 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 116 ($2.9M) Expenses 88 ($2.6M) Net assets 106 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 134 ($3.4M) Expenses 103 ($3.1M) Net assets 116 ($6.3M)2024 Revenue 156 ($3.9M) Expenses 119 ($3.6M) Net assets 127 ($6.9M)2025 Revenue 180 ($4.5M) Expenses 129 ($3.9M) Net assets 144 ($7.8M)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (129)Net assets (144)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.1M to $8.1M (+13%).

$5.5M
$5.4M
$5.3M
$5.4M
$6.1M
$6.0M
$6.5M
$7.1M
$8.1M
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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 24% · 2018 28% · 2019 26% · 2020 38% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 21% · 2024 20% · 2025 23%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$482k
’17
−$112k
’18
−$178k
’19
$62k
’20
$214k
’21
$289k
’22
$285k
’23
$359k
’24
$649k
’25
5.3
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.

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Listed282926171818212022
Joined·+3+6+5+2+6+5+3+5
No longer listed·291416243
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $164k → $1.7M.

12 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SOUTH TEXAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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 SOUTH TEXAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 SOUTH TEXAS INC.

44%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 52% · 2019 30% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 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

36% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
OR
PA
NE
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Government funding BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $510k on record.

Federal$510k
grants $510kcontracts $0
19
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$500k
  • Election Assistance Commission$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 6%Fundraising 12%

Governance

22
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 SOUTH TEXAS INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,636,989 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ($4,251,629). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC have?
IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $9,636,989 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR is the largest funder on record, with $4,251,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 69 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