Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106793771RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,672,212) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
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 26% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The charity provides the follwing mentoring programs: core mentoring: one to one community based one to one school based group based mentoring: ! Belong (formerly go girls) !mpact (formerly game on) pumped for post secondary
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $4.7M | $3.6M | $382K | — | $912K |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $4.4M | $2.8M | $1.2M | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.8M | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $2.9M | $1.7M | $785K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.5M | $1.5M | $612K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.6M from 42 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$555K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$528K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$315K
- Penny Appeal Canada$200K
- Toronto Foundation$177K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$77K
- Robert Kerr Foundation$75K
- The Langar Foundation$75K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$50K
- The Durland Learning Foundation$50K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$39K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$35K
- Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation$25K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$25K
- Canada Gives$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- The Bickle-Wilder Foundation$25K
- The Krstajic Foundation$25K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$23K
- Grey Birch Foundation$15K
- Gregory Mason Family Foundation$15K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$11K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nick Eaves (director); Mark Harrison (chair); Kathryn Lamothe (director); Joshua Liswood (director); Kelly Macdonald (director); Dean McCann (treasurer); Katy Pitch (director); Aly Rahemtulla (director); James Ricci (director); Annie Sheikh (director); Harj Shoan (director); Kelly Skinner (director); Ricardo Stanford (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106793771RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.