Minnesota · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,771,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,718,901). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities does
Mission
Our mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big brothers big sisters twin cities partners with 2,400 youth and their families each year through mentorship programs, including community-based mentoring, school-based mentoring, our big futures program which offers career and future readiness for teens, and free arts. Programming is supported by professional staff and more than 1,400 volunteers.our latest data show that youth report strong results in key developmental areas that lead to long-term success including educational persistence, making healthy choices, and developing social emotional skills necessary for personal success. For surveyed youth in 2025 mentored at least one year: 85% reported maintaining and strengthening educational expectations including high school completion and going to college; 80% reported maintaining and strengthening academic performance and grades; 91% reported maintaining and strengthening emotional regulation skills; and 90% reported maintaining and strengthening social competence with their peers.big brothers big sisters twin cities stakeholders also report a high level of satisfaction. Young people value the program, with 98% affirming that the relationship with their big is very important…
$4,303,293 spentof which $73,864 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,303,293.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $18M (+51%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 11% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 17% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Patrick Sukhum
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $654k → $1.3M.
17 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 THE GREATER TWIN CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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 THE GREATER TWIN CITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 THE GREATER TWIN CITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 52% · 2019 28% · 2020 13% · 2021 58% · 2022 84% · 2023 15% — 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
41% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
61% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.7M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES's revenue grew 17% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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.
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: 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 THE GREATER TWIN CITIES?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,771,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,718,901). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $19,771,141 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,718,901 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 82 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