Colorado · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,006 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($392,501). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $439k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $287k
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado Inc does
Mission
To create and support one-to-one relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Big brothers big sisters of southwest colorado creates and supports one- to-one mentoring relationships that inspire the power and promise of youth. Our vision is to help all youth in our program achieve their full potential and build an intrinsic feeling of the impact of positive relationships to be received and given throughout their lifetime. By partnering with parents/guardians, educators, volunteers, and other advocates in the community, we are accountable for each youth and volunteer in our program, ages 6 years+, in achieving higher graduation rates, increasing a sense of belonging and confidence, mitigate risky behaviors, and increase a desire to achieve their own success. Our professionally trained staff engage youth in a mentoring relationship within our local community. These relationships are built through two main program models: community-based mentoring and high school bigs mentoring. Community-based matches include a youth and adult that engage through intentional activities to strengthen their relationship. High school big matches are matched in a supervised setting that allow high school-aged mentors to engage with a mentee on a weekly basis, throughout the…
$253,141 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $253,141.
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 2017 to 2018, from $347k to $91k (−74%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2020 23% · 2021 31% · 2022 30% · 2023 21% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jennifer L Bartlett
CEO
Board chair
Tristen Musselman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $132k → $209k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SOUTHWEST COLORADO 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 SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 35% · 2022 51% · 2023 45% — 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
60% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k 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 SOUTHWEST COLORADO 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,006 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($392,501). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,153,006 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $392,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 24 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