Illinois · Nonprofit
HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,624 to it, the largest being HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ($586,473). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $622k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $880k
What Heart of Illinois Big Brothers Big Sisters does
Mission
The 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 FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization started group mentoring in early 2024. This is a small group of youth from the organization's waitlist that meet once a month at our office or in the community. The group is staffed by at least 2 bbbs team members and has 4 volunteers who also serve as mentors.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Provide companionship and guidance to children ages 5 - 14 from single parent families. Over 300 benefit by being matched with an adult role model.
$512,486 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $512,486.
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 $570k to $821k (+44%).
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: 2022 2% · 2023 31% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jami Truelove
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $39k → $223k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS’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
HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 77% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 64% · 2022 80% · 2023 61% — 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
57% of HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
89% of HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: 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 HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS?
- HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,624 to it, the largest being HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ($586,473). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,086,624 in grants to HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS?
- HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $586,473 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 14 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