Our Mission
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Our Vision
All youth achieve their full potential.
OUR VALUES
CONNECTION
We connect Bigs, Littles, families, our team, and the community. We focus on authentic connections to empower individuals and strengthen communities, fostering impactful one-on-one relationships that inspire positive change and belonging.
ADAPTIVE GROWTH
We embrace continuous learning to meet the evolving needs of our communities. By embracing challenges and innovative ideas, we grow as individuals and a team to better serve young people and foster meaningful change.
RESOURCEFULNESS
We are a resource multiplier for Littles, Bigs, and families. We are not the experts in all subjects, but activate and connect the expertise needed to achieve our mission. By stewarding resources and improving efficiency, we sustainably serve the greater Bay Area.
EMPATHY
We cultivate empathy as the foundation of a compassionate community, fostering a culture of inclusion and acceptance by listening deeply and coming together to embrace diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We are experts in the mentoring space because of our focused approach that meets participants where they are to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard and valued.
SAFETY
We prioritize safety – physical, emotional, and social – as vital for healing and growth, especially as a youth-serving organization. We ensure supportive environments through thorough interviews, case management, and vigilance, promoting individual wellbeing and healthier communities.
Our History
For over 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has worked to empower the potential of young people through one-to-one mentoring relationships. By carefully matching adult volunteers (“Bigs”) with young people (“Littles”), we foster meaningful connections that change the lives of Littles, Bigs, their families, and their wider communities.
Serving the Bay Area since 1958
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area has been creating and supporting local life-changing mentoring relationships for more than 65 years. What began as a single initiative has grown into a region-wide effort serving all nine counties of the Greater Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.
To meet rising demand and operate more efficiently, our organization has strategically united over time. In 2006, Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies from San Francisco & Peninsula, East Bay, and Santa Clara County merged to form a single, more synchronized regional presence. In 2017, we expanded again by integrating with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the North Bay, which had served Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano counties since 1970.
Together, we now operate as one unified organization, delivering consistent, high-quality mentorship services across the entire Bay Area—because every local young person has the potential to impact our shared community.
Financial Statements
Your financial support helps kids to realize their potential, one relationship at a time.
The documents below provide detail of our carefully managed financial status. Every local Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with its own IRS Form 990 and audited financial statements.
Audited Financial Statements
IRS Form 990s
Annual Impact Reports
Financial Forms