Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa / Grandes Freres Grands Soeurs d'Ottawa
Charitable organization · Nepean, Ontario · BN 106794431RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,604,208) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa / Grandes Freres Grands Soeurs d'Ottawa is a charitable organization based in Nepean, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 33% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $663K.
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 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
One to One Mentoring programs include: Big Brother/Big Sister Match program (6-14yrs); Meet You in School; Mentoring in School; MPower (15-24yrs) PRISM (2SLGBTQ+ youth 6-24yrs) Flash Mentoring programs include: Big Possibilities & Thrive Youth Employment Readiness Program (15-24yrs) All mentors in our programs are volunteers. In 2023 we had 599 volunteers who contributed 40 282hrs to the organization in time spent with youth.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1M | $188K | — | -$220K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.7M | $1.1M | $202K | — | -$203K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1M | $186K | — | -$2,523 |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $877K | $164K | $0 | $166K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1M | $729K | $124K | — | $94K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $663K from 20 charities:
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$242K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$129K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- RBC Foundation$45K
- Maurice Price Foundation$35K
- Senators Community Foundation$25K
- Happy Roots Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation$10K
- The Bloodroot Fund$5,000
- WCPD Foundation$4,000
- The Harry P Ward Foundation/la Fondation Harry P Ward$2,500
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$2,494
- BIG Hearts Canada Foundation$1,600
- The Tenaquip Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$181
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$922K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Ingram (executive director); Mark Zekulin (chair person); Lindsay Ostrom (treasurer); Michael Qaqish (member at large); Matt Haddad (member at large); Colin Anderson (member at large); Antonia Francis (member at large); Philip Shaer (member at large); Keith Egli (board chair); Leslie Feret (secretary); Ian Cascagnette (member at large); Michelle Alfieri (member at large); Michael Purcell (member at large); Yasser Ghazi (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa / Grandes Freres Grands Soeurs d'Ottawa’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106794431RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.