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Tennessee · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE (Tennessee) is funded by 25 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $5,850,218 in grants to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,600,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 257 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 53%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$28k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $203k and 6 in 2017.
13 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 funders by total. Association, not causation.
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 37% · 2019 36% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 92% · 2023 28% · 2024 28% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
50% of BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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.
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 25 funders put you typical 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
72% of spending goes to programs.
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is 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 25funders 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. view filing