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BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS AGENCY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY INC

EIN 94-2826754 SANTA CRUZ, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2023
$399,011
Expenses 2023
$381,003

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
740 FRONT ST STE 155

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 · 2023

Mission

Create and support mentoring matches that ignite the power and promise of youth.

  • The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County is to provide childrenfacing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported, one-to-onerelationships that change their lives for the better,forever. Since 1982, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County has served over 7,500 at-risk youth by creating mentoring relationships between these children and carefully screened adultvolunteers, who provide consistent guidance, friendship and appropriate rolemodeling. The vision statement of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County is:"All youth achieve their potential."Last fiscal year the Agency provided mentoring services to 150 ethnically diverseclients throughout Santa Cruz County. Big Brothers Big Sisters recruits volunteers to mentor those children at greatest risk of school truancy, drop-out, drug use, teen pregnancy and/or criminal activity. Over 80% of Agency clients live below the federal poverty level, the majority are living in single-parent homes, and many are struggling due to cultural and language barriers. Big Brothers Big Sisters' mentoring services help these children to believe in and achieve their potential in addition to making healthier decisions for their futures.The Agency has one primary program, the One-To-One Program. Volunteers serve asmentors in one-to-one relationships with children between the ages of 7 and 18.Potential volunteers go through a rigorous intake process, which includes anapplication, references, DMV report, criminal history check, interviews and training. Volunteers meet a minimum of twice a month with their Little and spend 6 to 10 hours each month with the children they are matched to, for a minimum of one year. The average match at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County lasts over two and a half years. The agency served 55 youth in mentoring last year.Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County conducts ongoing outcome evaluation ofits programs. Recent outcome evaluation of surveyed parents in the One-To-One Program found a 88% improvement in participating children's self-confidence; a 90%improvement in youth's ability to avoid delinquency; and a 87% improvement in thechildren's attitude toward school. Results from a recent evaluation of children andparents in the Enrichment and Mentoring Program found that 80% percent of the youthbelieved that their interest in school had improved, while 100% of surveyed parentssaw an improvement in their children's school grades.Big Brothers Big Sisters strives to find a place for all who want to be a part of the solution, whether as mentors, Board Members, tutors, special event fundraisers, or office volunteers. Last fiscal year, over 140 volunteers channeled their efforts to help Big Brothers Big Sisters achieve its goals and objectives. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County's organizational efficiency is key to its programmatic success.

    Expenses $341,620

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gabriela Trigueiro

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $100,385
    From this org
    $100,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Maria Barranco

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew Sinnott

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anissa Novak

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cara Benech

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jody Kolbach

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Jackson

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DeAndre James

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katherine Kirkwood

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $399,011
    Expenses
    $381,003
    Contributions
    $263,273
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $400,872
    Expenses
    $483,527
    Contributions
    $265,335
    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
    $358,014
    Expenses
    $439,087
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,006

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $340,684
    Expenses
    $420,931
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,542

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,684
    Expenses
    $336,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,922

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,684
    Expenses
    $333,231
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,778

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $387,328
    Expenses
    $403,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,559

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,554
    Expenses
    $438,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $230,436

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $522,926
    Expenses
    $461,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $328,119

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $422,128
    Expenses
    $424,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $265,024

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $422,700
    Expenses
    $421,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,065

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $464,787
    Expenses
    $367,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,782

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.