Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muskoka
Publicly funded institution · Bracebridge, Ontario · BN 892343468RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($164,106) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muskoka is a charitable organization based in Bracebridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, it reported $115K in revenue and $164K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,737.
Compared with 1,981 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $20K in 2020 to $115K in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muskoka creates and facilitates individual and group mentoring relationships amongst adults and youth. Mentorship is a two-way learning and development partnership where the young person needs are placed at the centre. Because young people’s brains are still developing mentoring can support that process through back-and-forth interaction like the volley in a good game of ping-pong. Mentoring is an important way to give youth experience with these essential back-and-forth relationships developing them into healthy young people better able to deal with and overc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $115K | $164K | $9,407 | $4,827 | $0 | $7,672 |
| 2022 | $156K | $138K | $1,260 | $10K | — | $60K |
| 2021 | $129K | $92K | $77K | — | — | $49K |
| 2020 | $20K | $104K | $90K | — | — | $12K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6,737 from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$109K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Ryan Venturelli (chair); Teleetha Calic (secretary); Dionne Schumacher (director); Robert Fournier (director); Erica Marcassa (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muskoka’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892343468RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.