Big Brothers Big Sisters of Saskatoon and Area Inc.
Charitable organization · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · BN 106793144RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,658,630) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Saskatoon and Area Inc. is a charitable organization based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations, 35% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $661K.
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 33% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
BBBS creates individual and group mentoring relationships among adults and youth. Mentorship is a two-way learning and development partnership where the young person's needs are placed at the center. 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 crucial to giving youth experience with these essential back-and-forth relationships developing them into healthy young people who can better deal with and overcome life’s adversities. We run one-to-one group…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $47K | — | $641K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $88K | — | $608K |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.3M | — | — | — | $641K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $916K | $28K | — | $387K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $661K from 18 charities:
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$210K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$129K
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$96K
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$65K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,363
- Access Communications Children's Fund Inc.$7,000
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$2,951
- Circle Drive Alliance Church$2,500
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$2,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$499
- United Way of Greater Toronto$101
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- The Sisters of the Presentation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Saskatoon and Area Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106793144RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.