Louisiana · Nonprofit
BIG BUDDY PROGRAM
BIG BUDDY PROGRAM (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,456,771 to it, the largest being CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ($1,151,225). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $-50673
What Big Buddy Program does
Mission
To provide access to positive role models and learning experiences to children who lack these resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Big Buddy Program provides one-to-one relationships for approximately 5,000 inner-city youths with volunteer adults. It also sponsors day camps, athletic teams, and other group activities for the underprivileged.
$2,272,300 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,272,300.
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 $655k to $363k (−45%).
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 68% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2020 60% · 2021 60% · 2022 73% · 2023 91% · 2024 86% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BIG BUDDY PROGRAM’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. 5 of the last 9 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
Gaylynne M Mack
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $255k → $328k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 BUDDY PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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 BUDDY PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 BUDDY PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 53% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 58% · 2022 50% · 2023 58% — broadly stable.
“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 BUDDY PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
82% of BIG BUDDY PROGRAM's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 BUDDY PROGRAM's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG BUDDY PROGRAM
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 Louisiana
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
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BUDDY PROGRAM: 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 BUDDY PROGRAM?
- BIG BUDDY PROGRAM (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,456,771 to it, the largest being CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ($1,151,225). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BUDDY PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,456,771 in grants to BIG BUDDY PROGRAM, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BUDDY PROGRAM?
- CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $1,151,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BUDDY PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing