Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton
Charitable organization · Sarnia, Ontario · BN 118808930RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($490,325) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton is a charitable organization based in Sarnia, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $644K in revenue and $490K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 8% from government, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $274K.
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 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
In our big brothers big sisters community based program we match boys and girls with an adult role model on a one to one basis. Children are also eligible for our couple matching program. In addition the agency macthes both boys and girls to an adult (male or female) mentor in a one to one releationship during school hours at the child's school in our in-school mentoring program. The agency also has several group based mentoring programs that include- a program for boys in grades 6-8 called game on a similar program for girls in grades 6-8 called go girls and two gender specific w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $644K | $490K | $163K | $186K | — | $506K |
| 2023 | $555K | $541K | $180K | $164K | — | $352K |
| 2022 | $569K | $481K | $261K | $50K | — | $311K |
| 2021 | $495K | $449K | $266K | $39K | — | $223K |
| 2020 | $509K | $570K | $338K | $50K | $0 | $177K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $274K from 11 charities:
- United Way of Sarnia-Lambton$143K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$64K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$25K
- Sarnia Community Foundation$22K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,475
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,074
- United Way of Greater Toronto$797
- Dunlop Central United Church$500
- Hashtag Charitable Foundation$455
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$328K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jess Bonnema (director); Geoffrey Dale (past chair); Brandon Elliot (vice chair); Zachary Gast (director); Shelby Hampshire (treasurer); Andrea Hands (chair); Dayna Langlois (director); Paula Lippiatt (director); Kyle McVittie (director); Nick Stokley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118808930RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.