Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 106793540RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,789,649) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 14% from government, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $260K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14 municipalities on Southern Vancouver Island inclusive of Sooke Salt Spring Island and the Comox Valley. On an annual basis we work with over 700 children and youth and 400 volunteer mentors supporting 1:1 mentoring relationships which empower youth enhancing their sense of belonging self-worth and resiliency and ultimately supporting our communities' mos…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.8M | $616K | $289K | $0 | $274K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $583K | $170K | $733 | $532K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $451K | $103K | $538 | $623K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.2M | $460K | $4,781 | — | $635K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $482K | $2,832 | — | $359K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $260K from 20 charities:
- The Victoria Foundation$55K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$45K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- United Way Southern Vancouver Island$25K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- The Western Communities Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- CKNW Kids' Fund$5,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$4,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,100
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$432
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Cowichan Valley$345
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$95
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Treble (secretary); Agnes Piotrowski (treasurer); Samuel Raphael (vice president); Frumsa Ibrahim (director); Mark Fisher (director); Melissa Hyland (director); Renata Troc (director); Basil Onyia (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106793540RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.