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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC

EIN 20-4243553 SPARTANBURG, SC

Revenue 2024
$476,638
Expenses 2024
$536,018

Program services were 83.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O30
Classification
1000
Street
161 E KENNEDY ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORTED YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES BY FACILITATION A WHOLESOME ADULT RELATIONSHIP FOR CHILDREN, PRIMARILY OF SINGLE PARENT HOMES, IN NEED OF A SECONDARY ROLE MODEL.

  • TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORTED YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES BY FACILITATING A WHOLESOME ADULT RELATIONSHIP FOR CHILDREN, PRIMARILY OF SINGLE PARENT HOMES, IN NEED OF A SECONDARY ROLE MODEL.

    Expenses $449,845

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • RAY BROWN

    BOARD CHAIR/EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAKESSA WRIGHT

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES LINDSAY

    VICE BOARD CHAIR, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AARON ADAMS

    GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXIS GIST

    TREASURER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF BALLENGER

    CHAIRPERSON OF GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NATALIE BOYD

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MOLLEY CLAYCOMB

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • OLIVIA DONNELLY

    GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BECCA FOX

    CHAIRPERSON OF FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • APRIL HART

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA JACKSON

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRANT NICHOLSON

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CORD SGAGLIO

    FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLENE CHEEKS

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $65,758
    From this org
    $65,758
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $476,638
    Expenses
    $536,018
    Contributions
    $337,789
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $362,983
    Expenses
    $512,899
    Contributions
    $260,062
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $341,361
    Expenses
    $537,768
    Contributions
    $262,981
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $901,141
    Expenses
    $417,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $729,324

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $464,554
    Expenses
    $298,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,404

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.