Big Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara
Charitable organization · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 130485907RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,787,128) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 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 16% from donations, 21% from government, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $495K.
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 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $830K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The association was established to provide compainionship and guidance to single parent children. Programs include community based mentoring ( big brothers and big sisters programs) and school based programs ( go girls! Game on! And in-school mentoring)
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 | $1.2M | $109K | — | $873K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.8M | $1.2M | $110K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $870K | $954K | $669K | $55K | — | $829K |
| 2021 | $954K | $867K | $623K | $46K | — | $913K |
| 2020 | $830K | $655K | $485K | $34K | — | $826K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $495K from 27 charities:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$102K
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- The Branscombe Family Foundation$75K
- The Joyce Family Foundation$48K
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$25K
- The Prevent Challenge Foundation of Niagara$18K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,831
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$6,553
- The Joyce Family Foundation$5,400
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$5,183
- The Yousef Haj-Ahmad Family Foundation$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,200
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,000
- Benevolent Society of Grimsby and District$1,500
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,500
- Rotary Club of Lincoln Foundation Inc.$1,000
- Mapleview Charities$1,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$833
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$743
- Ker United Church$450
- Jordan Christian School$448
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$376
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gynette Smith (vice president); Bradley Moyer (director); Ashleigh Myers (director); Alexandra Delvecchio (director); Laura Lee-Blake (director); Frank Ruberto (chair); Victoria Brzozowski (secretary); Bruce Smith (director); Steve Emslie (treasurer); Kate Fish (director); Cameron Jones (director); Cody Weber (director); Jaclyn Frail (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130485907RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.