Tennessee · Nonprofit
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,909,230 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($792,369). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $354k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $-38443
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc does
Mission
To provide opportunities for responsible volunteers to interact individually with children of one-parent homes providing them with proper companionship and encouragement throughout their early development.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
To provide responsible volunteers to interact individually with children of one-parent homes providing them with proper companionship and encouragement throughout their early development.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $191k to $52k (−73%).
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 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 34%. 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 3 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 held at 5 funders, grant income fell $763k → $147k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Mid-South Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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 Mid-South Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Mid-South Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 65% · 2021 43% · 2022 75% · 2023 66% — 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
25% of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc'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
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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 the Mid-South 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Mid-South 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 the Mid-South Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,909,230 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($792,369). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,909,230 in grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc?
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $792,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 17 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