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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NJ INC

EIN 22-3676931 NEWARK, NJ

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Revenue 2024
$3,481,636
Expenses 2024
$3,500,367

Program services were 83.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O23
Classification
1000
Street
550 BROAD ST STE 604

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

CREATE AND SUPPORT ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ADULT MENTORS AND YOUTH RESIDING IN ESSEX, HUDSON, AND UNION COUNTIES, NJ, THAT IGNITE THE POWER AND PROMISE OF YOUTH, AND TO BE A CREDIBLE SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION EMBEDDED IN OUR COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO HELP "AT RISK" CHILDREN REACH THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORTED, ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEASURABLE OUTCOMES AND PROVEN RESULTS.

  • TO PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORT AND ENABLE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH AND MEASURABLE OUTCOMES THROUGH ONE-TO-ONE YOUTH MENTORING IN ESSEX, HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY.

    Expenses $2,913,035

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.

  • Leslie Quick III

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Angelo Genova

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brett Harwood

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Lacey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ron Litchkowski

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joseph P Baumann Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joel Ruffin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Fass

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ron Decicco

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlos Lejnieks

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $402,228
    From this org
    $384,231
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,997
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $383,931
    Bonus
    $300
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,350
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,647
    Filer's total
    $402,228

  • Natalia Sardo

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $200,166
    From this org
    $186,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,366
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,500
    Bonus
    $300
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,719
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,647
    Filer's total
    $200,166

  • Viviana Baeza

    DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $112,317
    From this org
    $101,569
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,748
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kashonda Barnes

    DIRECTOR OF MATCH SUPPPORT

    Total calculated
    $106,800
    From this org
    $103,666
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,134
    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,481,636
    Expenses
    $3,500,367
    Contributions
    $3,481,610
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,693,991
    Expenses
    $3,252,065
    Contributions
    $2,693,434
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,602,878
    Expenses
    $3,174,398
    Contributions
    $4,612,788
    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
    $3,011,591
    Expenses
    $2,120,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,613,443

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,996,106
    Expenses
    $1,921,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,827

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,679,515
    Expenses
    $2,124,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $414,503

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,331,755
    Expenses
    $1,840,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $728,570

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,859,021
    Expenses
    $1,622,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,569

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,510,675
    Expenses
    $1,389,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,527

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,470,234
    Expenses
    $1,451,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,016

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,346,703
    Expenses
    $1,368,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $225,110

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $865,523
    Expenses
    $1,125,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,591

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,118,826
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,083

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.