Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor Essex
Charitable organization · Windsor, Ontario · BN 106792971RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($739,555) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor Essex is a charitable organization based in Windsor, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $655K in revenue and $740K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $509K.
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 47% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Bbswe contributes to the healthy development of boys and girls by providing caring adult friendships. Programs include: one to one match couple match summer match big middle-little match in-school mentoring and big lunch.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $655K | $740K | $644K | — | — | -$14K |
| 2023 | $778K | $847K | $762K | — | — | $2,608 |
| 2022 | $801K | $804K | $770K | — | — | $71K |
| 2021 | $686K | $686K | $653K | — | — | $79K |
| 2020 | $665K | $650K | $614K | — | — | $75K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $509K from 19 charities:
- Solcz Family Foundation$225K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$73K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$51K
- The Toldo Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$44K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- Windsor Spitfires Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Windsor Volunteers For Literacy Foundation$2,500
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fund$2,300
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,549
- The Foundation Office.ca$1,250
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$126
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$103
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County—
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County—
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$493K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amina Abdulle (director); Vanessa Dakin-Marin (vice president); Kurt Lucas (treasurer); Chris Byrne (director); Prakash Pandya (director); Mike Waronchak (director); Becky Parent (executive director); Pique Bhatt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor Essex’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106792971RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.