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BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC

BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,303 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ($568,254). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$142k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$747k
Net assets
$191k
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Big Brothers - Big Sisters of York County Inc does

Mission

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. Provides mentoring opportunities to more than 110 youth each year.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our vision is that all children achieve success in life. We partner with parents/guardians, volunteers and others in the community and hold ourselves accountable for each child in our program achieving: higher aspirations, greater confidence, better relationships, avoidance of risky behaviors and educational success.

    $251,324 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $251,324.

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 ($491k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($450k)2018 Revenue 100 ($492k) Expenses 94 ($416k) Net assets 116 ($520k)2019 Revenue 88 ($431k) Expenses 100 ($444k) Net assets 116 ($521k)2020 Revenue 74 ($363k) Expenses 92 ($411k) Net assets 107 ($479k)2021 Revenue 68 ($332k) Expenses 84 ($376k) Net assets 100 ($451k)2022 Revenue 59 ($291k) Expenses 85 ($377k) Net assets 79 ($354k)2023 Revenue 52 ($255k) Expenses 75 ($333k) Net assets 64 ($286k)2024 Revenue 29 ($142k) Expenses 55 ($245k) Net assets 43 ($191k)
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Revenue (29)Expenses (55)Net assets (43)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $310k to $192k (−38%).

$468k
$547k
$550k
$499k
$467k
$390k
$310k
$192k
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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: 2021 16% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’17
$76k
’18
−$13k
’19
−$48k
’20
−$43k
’21
−$86k
’22
−$78k
’23
−$103k
’24
4.9
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.

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Listed2422222020202017
Joined·+2+1+2+6+10+0+0
No longer listed·41461003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $129k → $41k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 YORK COUNTY INC’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 YORK COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 YORK COUNTY INC.

76%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 47% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

8% of BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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

93% of BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WI
OH
PA
CA
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 6%Fundraising 13%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC?
BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,303 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ($568,254). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $747,303 in grants to BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC?
UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $568,254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 16 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