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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,116,526 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($1,302,510). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2025
30
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
13/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

Against its field

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($709k) Expenses 100 ($666k) Net assets 100 ($175k)2018 Revenue 128 ($908k) Expenses 114 ($759k) Net assets 186 ($326k)2019 Revenue 126 ($894k) Expenses 141 ($938k) Net assets 167 ($291k)2020 Revenue 141 ($996k) Expenses 142 ($948k) Net assets 196 ($343k)2021 Revenue 146 ($1.0M) Expenses 148 ($983k) Net assets 223 ($390k)2022 Revenue 234 ($1.7M) Expenses 158 ($1.1M) Net assets 571 ($999k)2023 Revenue 161 ($1.1M) Expenses 168 ($1.1M) Net assets 584 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 192 ($1.4M) Expenses 175 ($1.2M) Net assets 699 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 189 ($1.3M) Expenses 206 ($1.4M) Net assets 683 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (189)Expenses (206)Net assets (683)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 12% · 2019 24% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 18% · 2023 32% · 2024 25% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
17
$149k
18
$43k
19
$48k
20
$48k
21
$611k
22
$21k
23
$199k
24
$29k
25
7.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $15k → $365k.

9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)13% 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 VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED’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 VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED.

62%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 61% · 2023 62%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

47% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.

WI
NY
OR
CA
MO
VA
NC
GA
FL

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

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23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $273k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 12%Fundraising 13%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,116,526 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($1,302,510). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,116,526 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED?
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $1,302,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing