Nevada · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,883 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($327,985). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $890k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada does
Mission
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada (BBBSN) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation that is a leader in youth mentoring services. Since 1971, BBBSN has been developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of youth in our community, ages six through 18. Our mission is to help children reach their full potential through professionally supported one-to-one mentor relationships. BBBSN is the local agency of a national organization with over 100 years of history in providing mentors to youth who need them the most. All children are born with potential and the role of their mentor is to defend that potential and ignite their future towards educational, social and career achievements.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Based program is the more traditional mentoring program of BBBSN. Carefully screened and trained mentors are matched with children in the community who can benefit from an additional caring and positive adult in their life. Over 90% of these children and youth are being raised in a single parent household or, by grandparents - a growing population. These friend matches engage in activities in the community and on a schedule arranged between the Big, Little and parent or guardian. Matches meet several times a month, doing activities in the community that the Big and Little enjoy. We strive to support these matches so they stay together for years, or for life. Special populations who we are targeting based on high need include children involved in the foster care system and juvenile justice involved youth. Research indicates that these youth are at high risk of challenges and need additional adult support in their lives.
$0 spent0% of program spendingBBBSN's Site Based Mentoring program works directly in schools, with school principals, counselors and teachers to enhance a child's ability to learn, interact with their peers and reduce questionable behavior and negative influences. Typically, the youth are ages six to 10, and are from low income and at-risk environments. We partner closely with eight elementary school sites within the Clark County School District. The Site Based Mentors are caring adults and high school students from the community who go through rigorous background checks and training prior to being matched. Program staff from BBBSN are continuously and actively involved in every mentoring experience. Staff provide liaison with the school, support for mentors and families. BBBSN also has site based programs at East Las Vegas Community Center during after school hours. Site meetings are scheduled Monday through Friday between 1:00 and 6:00 PM. All matches at a site meet together on the same day and time for one hour per week. We ask for a minimum of a one year commitment to the program. The Bigs become very important in the life of their Littles and consistency in a long lived relationship is critical.
$0 spent0% of program spendingBig Brothers Big Sisters of America ("BBBSA") has been awarded funding from The National Football League Foundation under the NFL Inspire Change Social Justice Grant to further BBBSA's youth mentoring initiatives. The National Football League's Inspire Change program demonstrates their commitment to their communities with an emphasis on educational success, economic advancement, social justice, and healthy relationships. The NFL Foundation funding in Southern Nevada is deployed towards engaging and matching Children With Incarcerated Family Members. The research indicates that a quality mentoring relationship can reduce the likelihood that a youth will also be engaged in the justice system, unlike their parent or sibling. Additionally, children of color are disproportionately represented in the juvenile justice system.
$0 spent0% of program spendingBBBSN Match Support Specialists (MSS) are responsible for program delivery, outcome measurement and evaluation activities, including gathering data from CCSD, reporting program results, and maintaining program quality. All of our MSS are required to have at least a Bachelor's degree; over 50% have advanced degrees. MSS provide case management, provide referrals and resources, advocate for foster youth at Child Family Team Meetings, work with probation and judges for youth who are involved with the juvenile justice system and provide ongoing training for mentors in both group and individual platforms. The Match Support Specialists are managed by our Chief Executive Officer who has more than 15 years of youth development experience and our Director of Programs, who has more than 15 years of youth development experience. Our Controller has a bachelors degree in business/accounting with extensive experience managing federal, state and local municipality funding as well as private contributions.
$405,836 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $405,836.
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.
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 $343k to $1.3M (+282%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 17% · 2019 9% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 12% · 2023 9% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Kelly Schwarz
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Jeff Waibel
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $343k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Big Brothers Big Sisters of S Nevada). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA’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 SOUTHERN NEVADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 SOUTHERN NEVADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2019 77% · 2020 76% · 2021 68% · 2022 69% · 2023 44% — 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
33% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 SOUTHERN NEVADA draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k 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 SOUTHERN NEVADA
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Friends of Big Brothers Big Sisters of S Nevada · exempt
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,883 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($327,985). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $889,883 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $327,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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