Ohio · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,764 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($449,980). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $411k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $339k
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc does
Mission
To create and support one to one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community matches youth with a volunteer a least 18 years of age who are willing to be a positive influence in the life of a child. These volunteers spend the amount of time required to form and maintain a mentoring relationship with children 6-18. The volunteers act as role models mentors and friends to children with the goal of increasing their self confidence as well as being a support system for them. The agency had approximately 82 kids matched with volunteers at Dec 31 2024.
$139,012 spent55% of program spendingSite based programs during the school year Site Based Specialists coordinate and supervise the site-based program a school-based initiative that pairs high school volunteers with elementary school children during after school hours. Homework assistance games snacks and important social times to meet with their mentor is supervised throughout Summit Medina and Stark Counties. Approximately 86 students were served at 6 schools throughout 2024.
$113,195 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $252,207.
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 $635k to $399k (−37%).
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: 2019 6% · 2021 20% · 2022 4% · 2023 16% · 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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $243k → $136k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Summit Medina and Stark Counties 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 Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% 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
97% 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 Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 50% · 2022 41% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
66% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $512k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Summit Medina and Stark Counties 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 Ohio
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
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,764 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($449,980). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,415,764 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $449,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 19 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