Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
750800632
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2144412227
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Human Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,101,077
Expenses
$18,071,289
Assets
$14,504,474
Liabilities
$2,814,246

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

43 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PIERCE BUSH THRU 1125 (CEO)
  • OZZIE SMITH (MARKET PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER HARPER (MARKET PRESIDENT)
  • ALISTINE TURNBULL-BLACKSHEAR (MARKET PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • PIERCE BUSH THRU 1125 (CEO): $474,940 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL O'TETER (CPO): $187,587 total reported compensation
  • JENIFFER SCOTT (CFO): $185,099 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To enrich, encourage and empower children to reach their highest potential through safe, positive, one-to-one mentoring relationships.

What it reported doing in 2025

BBBS provides mentoring services to facilitate the personal growth and development of the children in BBBS programs. BBBS recruits, screens, and educates volunteers to serve as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. BBBS provides continual monitoring of the match relationship to ensure a positive experience for both the Bigs and Littles. BBBS Lone Star's primary goal is to expand our reach and impact more children with our outcomes-achieving mission to prepare them to achieve their full potential. Mentoring not only connects a child with a positive adult role model, but it has proven to prepare students to graduate from high school ready to succeed. BBBS Lone Star served 5,486 children during 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 34 of 34 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $475K · 43 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.