Tennessee · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN (Tennessee) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,248,594 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,600,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn does
Mission
Big brothers big sisters' mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big brothers big sisters of middle tn (bbbsmt) youth mentoring is an evidence-based practice, recognized nationally in the federal office of juvenile justice & delinquency prevention's model programs guide and in the national registry of evidence-based programs and practices. In bbbsmt mentoring programs, youth are paired with a volunteer mentor and are provided with ongoing agency support to facilitate strong mentoring relationships. Bbbsmt mentoring produces positive outcomes for youth in the areas of academics, well-being/self-esteem, social competence, and avoidance of risky behaviors/juvenile justice involvement.
$3,750,148 spentof which $532,904 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,750,148.
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 $3.1M to $6.1M (+99%).
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 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 38% · 2021 59% · 2022 34% · 2023 50% · 2024 63% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN’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. 4 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
Melissa Hudson-Gant
CEO
Board chair
Thomas Lampe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $414k → $733k.
15 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 TN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 85% · 2023 14% — 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
61% of BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
55% of BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.7M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dream Big Fund Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN?
- BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN (Tennessee) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,248,594 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,600,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $8,248,594 in grants to BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 59 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