Big Brothers Big Sisters of Westchester County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862196757
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Port Chester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9143056874
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $757,331
- Expenses
- $1,139,038
- Assets
- $1,076,621
- Liabilities
- $343,453
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN E ELLSWORTH (CEO (BEG 09/)
- VALERIE BROWN (CEO (END 08/)
Highest reported compensation
- VALERIE BROWN (CEO (END 08/): $134,088 total reported compensation
- ANN E ELLSWORTH (CEO (BEG 09/): $55,417 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Big brothers big sisters of westchester county inc. Is a youth mentoring organization serving children, ages 7 to 17, who live in new yorks westchester and putnam counties. The mission of big brothers big sisters of westchester county, inc. Is to help all children achieve their full potential in school and in life. Big brothers big sisters of westchester county inc. Provides young people who face adversity with professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
What it reported doing in 2024
Big futures - this is the organization's college and career counseling program for our high school littles. As littles enter high school, the organization works intensively with them to set realistic goals and guide them in creating educational and career paths toward achieving those goals. Rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors participate in our six-week bbbs summer internship program. The interns work with trained program leaders, collaborate with staff to complete special projects around the office, meet returning college students who are alumni of the program, and learn from company and community representatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -50.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $890K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.