Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation

Analysis

Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.5m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.4m (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Proworks Inc ($2.4m), Extended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County Inc ($2.4m) and Compassion United Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $541k. At year end it held assets of $546k against liabilities of $479k, net assets of $66k. It reported 13 employees.