Big Brothers Big Sisters of the National Capital Area
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530190849
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027835585
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,322,547
- Expenses
- $1,262,789
- Assets
- $1,000,968
- Liabilities
- $1,552,581
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL J SANZI (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- KENTON SNEED (VICE PRESIDENT OF MISSION PARTNERSHIPS)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL J SANZI (PRESIDENT & CEO): $189,243 total reported compensation
- SYLVIA GUTIERREZ (MANAGER): $134,839 total reported compensation
- KENTON SNEED (VICE PRESIDENT OF MISSION PARTNERSHIPS): $125,727 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help at risk children achieve full potential through professionally supported one-on-one mentoring relationships with screened and trained adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
Since 1949, big brothers big sisters of the national capital area (bbbsnca) has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As the Washington, dc region's largest donor and volunteer-supported mentoring network, bbbsnca makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers ("bigs") and children ("littles"), ages 7 - 18 years old, in communities across the national capital area. A non-profit organization, big brothers big sisters of the national capital area's mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Big brothers big sisters of the national capital area is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of children through professionally supported long-term, one-to-one mentoring relationships with carefully screened, caring, and committed adults. The organization has a stellar record in helping children daily make healthy choices to stay in school, stay out of trouble, and on track toward healthy and productive futures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.55; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $968K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.