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BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA INC

EIN 94-1559853 SACRAMENTO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$618,556
Expenses 2024
$631,968

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1900
Street
1750 HOWE AVE STE 240

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

BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS MISSION (BBBS) IS TO HELP CHILDREN REACH THEIR POTENTIALTHROUGH ONE TO ONE RELATIONSHIPS WITH MENTORS THAT HAVE MEASURABLE IMPACT ON YOUTH.BBBS VISION IS SUCCESSFUL MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS FOR ALL CHILDREN WHO NEED AND WANTTHEM, CONTRIBUTING TO BRIGHTER FUTURE, BETTER SCHOOLS AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES FOR ALL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BBBS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA, AN AFFILIATE OF THE BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA ORGANIZATION, WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1963 AND SERVES YOUTH BETWEEN THE AGES OF 8-18, FROM SACRAMENTO, YOLO AND PLACER COUNTIES. MOST PARTICIPANTS COME FROM SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLDS OR CHILDREN THAT ARE BEING RAISED BY GRANDPARENTS OR FOSTER PARENTS. OVER 80% OF FAMILIES SERVED ARE AT OR BELOW THE POVERTY LINE. 28% OF THE CHILDREN HAVE NOT MET THEIR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS AND 12% HAVE PARENTS THAT ARE INCARCERATED. DESPITE THEIR YOUNG AGE, THE YOUTH WE SERVE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING THAT IS WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS. THEY'VE BEEN FORCED TO GROW UP TOO QUICKLY, WHICH CAN NEGATIVELY IMPACT THEIR VIEW OF THE WORLD AND THEMSELVES. AS THE NATION'S LARGEST DONOR AND VOLUNTEER SUPPORTED MENTORING NETWORK, BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS PROVIDES CHILDREN FACING ADVERSITY WITH STRONG AND ENDURING PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORTED ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS THAT CHANGE LIVES FOR THE BETTER. YOUTH IN OUR PROGRAM ARE MATCHED TO DE

  • BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS MISSION (BBBS) IS TO HELP CHILDREN REACH THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH ONE TO ONE RELATIONSHIPS WITH MENTORS THAT HAVE MEASURABLE IMPACT ON YOUTH.BBBS VISION IS SUCCESSFUL MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS FOR ALL CHILDREN WHO NEED AND WANT THEM, CONTRIBUTING TO BRIGHTER FUTURE, BETTER SCHOOLS AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES FOR ALL.

    Expenses $540,939

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.

  • Jacob Peterson

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $157,868
    From this org
    $157,868
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,868
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $157,868

  • Nereida Yanez-Lenoir

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Shevar Goonewardena

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Bobbie L Lister III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Leland Washington

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mark Koppang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Michael Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jason Schaff

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Chris Kolkey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Fred Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Heather Vargas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kevin Bender

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Stephanie Ganiban

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Peter Zalkind

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ken Bender

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dan Carlton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $618,556
    Expenses
    $631,968
    Contributions
    $340,021
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $157,796
    Expenses
    $426,305
    Contributions
    $120,833
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,103,163
    Expenses
    $492,549
    Contributions
    $1,009,932
    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
    $511,101
    Expenses
    $515,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $183,656

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,048
    Expenses
    $452,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $286,400

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $602,124
    Expenses
    $620,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,230

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $766,810
    Expenses
    $561,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,846

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $466,268
    Expenses
    $486,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,025

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $383,705
    Expenses
    $483,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,146

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $333,651
    Expenses
    $483,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,146

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $525 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $228 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.