California · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC
CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,524,548 to it, the largest being CARRIE ESTELLE DOHENY FOUNDATION ($280,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $642k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $33k
What Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc does
Mission
Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs youth in-need and volunteers of all faiths and backgrounds in one-to-one professionally suported mentoring relationships to help them academically and in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Catholic big brothers big sisters, inc. Established in 1925, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform lives through rewarding and enriching relationships between trained mentors and youth of all beliefs and identities throughout los angeles county. Cbbbs has developed a broad spectrum of partnership programs and services over the years that focus on the needs of children between ages of seven and eighteen who are living in mostly single-parent families, including foster children. Cbbbs offers one-to-one community mentoring programs.
$921,170 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $921,170.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $906k to $488k (−46%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Kenneth E Martinet
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $189k → $289k.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 56% · 2022 41% · 2023 19% — 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
29% of CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
70% of CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k 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.
Government funding CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Education$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: 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 CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC?
- CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,524,548 to it, the largest being CARRIE ESTELLE DOHENY FOUNDATION ($280,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,524,548 in grants to CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC?
- CARRIE ESTELLE DOHENY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC 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.
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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 33 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