Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Halton and Hamilton
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 106792989RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,981,532) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Halton and Hamilton is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from government, 50% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $756K.
Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Glow (girls linking our worlds) - school based mentoring program for female identifying youth ages 12-14 that focuses on empowerment and leadership development to provide young people with information tools and support to make informed choices about healthy living while developing confidence in their own identity. Heart - (healthy education and relationship teaching - formerly go girls!) is the sister program to glow adapted for female identifying youth in grades 4-6. Game on- school based group program for male identifying youth in grades 4-8. Through traditional and non-traditional ph…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $2M | — | $156K | — | $227K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.9M | $1.1M | $255K | — | $825K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $945K | $96K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.4M | — | $19K | — | $940K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.8M | — | $95K | — | $571K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $756K from 20 charities:
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$266K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$210K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Oakville Community Foundation$36K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$28K
- A. W. B. Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Gear Foundation$18K
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$16K
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,024
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$9,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,359
- RCO Charitable Fund$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$3,850
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$1,428
- Reise Family Foundation$1,200
- National Steel Car Limited Employees Charitable Donation Fund$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$38
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aaron Johnson (chair strategy and dive); Brad Staley (director); Cassandra Weatherston (director); Heather Davidson (vice chair chair- gove); Melanie Snyder (director); Melissa Finley (director); Nadine Yacoub (director); Shahbaz Khan (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Halton and Hamilton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106792989RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.