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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS (Nebraska) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,296,580 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,178,448). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$4.6M
32/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands 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.

Program

  1. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands' vision is for all youth to achieve their full potential. Our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. By partnering with parents/guardians, volunteers, and others in the community, we are accountable for each child in our programs achieving higher aspirations, greater confidence, better relationships, and educational success, as well as avoidance of risky behaviors. Our success is measured with the youth outcome survey (yos) developed exclusively for big brothers big sisters (bbbs) by expert researchers in the mentoring field.bbbs of the midlands operates the community-based mentoring program for youth ages 7-21 and the mentoru program for high school students. Big brothers big sisters serves from all socio-economic backgrounds. However, the majority of those enrolled in the programs reside in single-parent homes with household income levels eligible for free or reduced lunches. Youth living in foster care and children with one or both parents incarcerated make up a significant number of those served. The youth, volunteers, and families we partner with represent the…

    $3,279,915 spentof which $4,819 as grants$-29,416 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,279,915.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 112 ($2.5M) Expenses 108 ($2.5M) Net assets 101 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 93 ($2.1M) Expenses 108 ($2.5M) Net assets 74 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 114 ($2.5M) Expenses 98 ($2.3M) Net assets 92 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 132 ($2.9M) Expenses 97 ($2.2M) Net assets 136 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 231 ($5.2M) Expenses 115 ($2.7M) Net assets 292 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 178 ($4.0M) Expenses 129 ($3.0M) Net assets 354 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 136 ($3.0M) Expenses 178 ($4.1M) Net assets 288 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (178)Net assets (288)

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 $2.3M to $4.9M (+112%).

$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$2.3M
$4.9M
$5.9M
$6.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2020 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2024 18%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$82k
’17
$13k
’18
−$426k
’19
$280k
’20
$703k
’21
$2.5M
’22
$992k
’23
−$1.1M
’24
12
months of
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

Nichole Turgeon

CEO

Board chair

Eric Johnson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2222222222222426
Joined·+3+4+5+6+9+2+6
No longer listed·3456904
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $743k → $1.3M.

12 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MIDLANDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 MIDLANDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

59% 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 MIDLANDS.

28%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 28% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 69% · 2023 13% — 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

55% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

76% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

MN
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
NE
DE
AZ
AR
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS

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 Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 6%Fundraising 15%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

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 THE MIDLANDS?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS (Nebraska) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,296,580 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,178,448). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $11,296,580 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,178,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 55 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