Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ontario/les Grands Freres Grandes Soeurs d'Ontario
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 140571365RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($723,195) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ontario/les Grands Freres Grandes Soeurs d'Ontario is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $491K in revenue and $723K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 35 qualified donees totalling $623K in 2024, the largest being $134K to Big Brothers Big Sisters Peel York. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $314K in 2020 to $491K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Our mission is to assist the local (ontario) big brothers and big sisters agencies in the province of ontario by providing them with program funding based on availibility and merit which they can then use to better serve children in their respective areas. With the exception of the members on the board of directors of big brothers and big sisters of ontario (bbso) bbso does not employ the services of any other volunteers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $491K | $723K | — | — | $623K | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $35K | $190K | — | — | $98K | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $23K | $275K | — | $177K | $15K | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $930K | — | $769K | $109K | $3.5M |
| 2020 | $314K | $199K | — | $41K | $88K | $3.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $623K to 35 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Peel York$134K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters South-West Durham$46K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Toronto$40K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Hamilton$28K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Niagara$27K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters London and Area$24K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa$22K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor$21K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Waterloo Region$19K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Lanark County$19K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Guelph$19K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Grey Bruce$18K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Kingston$18K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Oxford County$17K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Centre Wellington$16K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Sarnia$14K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Orillia & District$13K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters South Bruce North Huron$12K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters North Bay$12K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Barrie & District$11K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Leeds and Grenville$9,929
- Big Brothers Big Sisters North Durham$9,447
- Big Brothers Big Sisters North Simcoe$9,073
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Peterborough$8,990
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Clarington$8,978
Received $0 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle Hayes (director); Gary Chiu (treasurer); Lisa Shostack (vice president); James Sliter (president); Nicole Treitz (director); Eric Cuillerier (director); Norah Marsh (director); Laura Ryan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ontario/les Grands Freres Grandes Soeurs d'Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140571365RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.