Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area (formerly Aunts and Uncles at Large)
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 140151259RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,475,911) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area (formerly Aunts and Uncles at Large) is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 48% from government, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $830K.
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 18% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Through community and school-based mentoring programs Big Brothers Big Sisters ensures that children and youth facing adversity have the relationships they need to become resilient and realize their full potential. With the support of our professional qualified staff mentors form strong one-to-one relationships with their mentees that express care challenge growth provide support share power and expand possibilities. These critical developmental relationships allow children and youth to strengthen their social emotional learning and executive functioning skills developing them into res…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $2.5M | $553K | — | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $2.4M | $464K | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.4M | $2.5M | $375K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.1M | $2.4M | $321K | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3.2M | $2.6M | $252K | — | $772K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $830K from 26 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$256K
- The Calgary Foundation$199K
- The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund$84K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$59K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$42K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$30K
- Werklund Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$21K
- Hunter Family Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Silver Gummy$15K
- Carthy Foundation$15K
- Viewpoint Foundation$13K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,572
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,096
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$2,500
- The Byler Foundation$2,500
- The Church of the Holy Nativity$2,000
- Tudor Ridge Foundation$1,000
- Canada Gives$500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$320
- United Way of Greater Toronto$104
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mouhammed Merhi (staff officer controller); Kenneth Lima-Coelho (staff officer president & ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area (formerly Aunts and Uncles at Large)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140151259RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.