Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh

What it reported doing in 2024

Our agencys primary programs include Community-Based, Site-Based, and Group Mentoring. In all of our programs we maintain a commitment to program quality. Each match is supported by a staff member helping matches to set and maintain goals as well as track outcomes and provide encouragement and general support when necessary. A. The Community-Based Program is the traditional mentoring model, in which bigs and littles meet for at least four hours each month in community settings. These one-to-one matches often visit restaurants and attend sporting events together and spend time at local libraries, parks, zoos, museums, and other recreational locations.B. The Site-Based Program includes programs that thake place in the schools or in workplaces. School-Based Programs generally occur at the Little's school during lunch time or after school. Bigs and Littles in School-Based Programs engage in structured activities together for one hour at a specified time and place throughout the school year. During the summer, our agency organized events and presents other opportunities for these matches to stay connected. Workplace mentoring is a program where secondary students travel to a specific corporate environment to meet with mentors bi-weekly for traditional mentoring as well as awareness of opportunities in an active work environment. The program is designed to give exposure to the workplace and provide opportunities for career and educational goal setting. In our high school prgram, the mentees and mentors continue to work together, in person and online, through high school graduation. After graduation mentees and mentors have the opportunity to continue receiving professional support through our post-secondary program (PSP). In the PSP, staff and mentors assist mentees as they pursue education in college/university or trade school, enlistment in the military and/or living wage employment.C. The Group Mentoring Program is led by BBBS staff in a school based setting. In this program groups of students will meet during the school day to receive mentoring and ongoing support from a trained BBBS staff mentor. In addition to leading group mentoring sessions staff will also engage in one-to-one mentoring with additional students in the program.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
• Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
• Fundraising efficiency: $5.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings