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MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS

MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,634 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CLINTON COUNTY IOWA ($81,634). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$18k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$86k
Net assets
$0
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Mentor Clinton County Formerly Big Brothers Big Sisters does

Mission

Every child deserves the ability and opportunity to succeed.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

To provide a positive role model to young boys and girls in the clinton and surrounding areas

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2018 Revenue 99 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 44 ($10k)2019 Revenue 118 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 55 ($12k)2020 Revenue 115 ($92k) Expenses 90 ($82k) Net assets 97 ($22k)2021 Revenue 23 ($18k) Expenses 43 ($40k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (23)Expenses (43)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $35k to $0 (−100%).

$24k
$12k
$15k
$35k
$0
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
−$12k
’18
$2k
’19
$9k
’20
−$22k
’21
5.1
months of
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed101010109
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $19k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
total
funders
2
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY 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

MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY 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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS?
MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,634 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CLINTON COUNTY IOWA ($81,634). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $85,634 in grants to MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS?
UNITED WAY OF CLINTON COUNTY IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $81,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTOR CLINTON COUNTY FORMERLY BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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