Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oxford County
Charitable organization · Woodstock, Ontario · BN 126802230RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($777,034) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oxford County is a charitable organization based in Woodstock, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $789K in revenue and $777K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 20% from government, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $294K.
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 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Programs: Traditional Big Brothers/Big Sisters Couples Family Match - 3 to 4 hours per week. School Based Mentoring: 1 hour per week during the school year; Group Mentoring SOAR Program: 2 hours per week for 8-10 weeks; Go Girls and Game On: 1.5 hours per week for 7 weeks. PRISM Program supporting LGBTQ youth; Virtual Mentoring - 1 hour per week Studies show that mentoring can increase self-esteem and confidence enhance social skills discourage the use of drugs and alcohol diminish involvement with criminal behaviour. BBBS supports hundreds of young people in a variety of mentoring …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $789K | $777K | $702K | $53K | $0 | $715K |
| 2023 | $701K | $685K | $588K | $55K | — | $703K |
| 2022 | $615K | $513K | $465K | $26K | $0 | $664K |
| 2021 | $660K | $564K | $519K | $23K | — | $561K |
| 2020 | $684K | $644K | $601K | $3,901 | — | $455K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $294K from 11 charities:
- United Way of Oxford$120K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- The Harvey and Mary Ellen Hunt Foundation$10K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,932
- DR. Leonard Reeves Foundation$3,000
- Oxford Community Foundation$1,720
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$625
- 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
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$518K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Routley (president); Greg Bruce (treasurer); Patricia Wettlaufer (director); Sara Jane McGuire (director); Michael Szala (director); Lori Cook (director); Melanie Jaycock (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oxford County’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 126802230RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.