North Carolina · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,662,173 to it, the largest being ANONYMOUS TRUST U/A DATED 2-4-2008 ($643,850). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle Inc does
Mission
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. The organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring children of prisoners (mcp):the mcp program functions under the guidelines and by the infrastructure of the community-based mentoring program. Mentors are paired with a child who has had a parent or guardian incarcerated. The program is committed to helping children overcome the disruption of the relationship with their parent who has been incarcerated, as well as any other hardship that the child may be encountering. Mentoring relationships are one-to-one and all participants receive training and supplemental activities to better support and enrich their program experience.
$84,510 spent12% of program spendingCommunity and site based one-to-one mentoring:the professionally paired and matched one-to-one mentoring relationships are designed to support and enhance a child's assets, in order to foster their physical, intellectual, emotional and moral development. Both programs pair volunteers with children ages 6-14 in wake, durham and orange counties.community based: this is the classic pairing of well-screened, caring volunteer mentors with children from primarily single-parent families. The volunteers are adults who are willing to commit at least one year to serving as a big brother or big sister volunteer mentor. Community based matches spend a minimum of 8 hours a month together doing activities and spending time together in the community.site based: site based matches spend a minimum of 4 hours a month together for at least one year. Site based matches meet only at the designated location (I.e.: elementary school, middle school, after-school program, recreation center, designated beyond school wall partner work place, etc.)
$621,552 spent88% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $706,062.
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 $1.2M to $1.6M (+33%).
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 25% · 2018 3% · 2019 20% · 2020 31% · 2021 14% · 2022 17% · 2023 4% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
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
Erin Callahan
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $200k → $319k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 TRIANGLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 TRIANGLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 TRIANGLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 49% · 2019 53% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 23% — 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
33% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
76% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $513k 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.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 TRIANGLE INC?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,662,173 to it, the largest being ANONYMOUS TRUST U/A DATED 2-4-2008 ($643,850). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,662,173 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC?
- ANONYMOUS TRUST U/A DATED 2-4-2008 is the largest funder on record, with $643,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 39 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