Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region
Charitable organization · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 131877177RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($846,654) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $685K in revenue and $847K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 51% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $399K.
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 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Multiple programs provided to serve boys/girls in need of mentoring. The organization proves a multi-facated program to serve children with needs resulting from cultural and socio-economic marginalization.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $685K | $847K | $679K | $51K | — | $371K |
| 2023 | $831K | $981K | $790K | $41K | — | $533K |
| 2022 | $693K | $863K | $694K | $22K | — | $683K |
| 2021 | $713K | $698K | $556K | $8,152 | — | $853K |
| 2020 | $959K | $847K | $684K | $28K | — | $847K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $399K from 15 charities:
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$85K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$62K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$42K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$31K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$8,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo$2,500
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,373
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$577K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joe Dalton (director); Leif Erickson (director); Susan Marchiori (vice chair); Phoebe Wong (treasurer); R. Cory Wright (president and chair); Ben Van Wart (director); Jennifer Caskie (director); Marselis Subban (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131877177RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.