Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 106793722RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,416,906) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from government, 88% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.3M.
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 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Big brother community program the traditional big brothers program matches adult male volunteers with boys aged 7-14 who need a positive male role model. In-school mentor the in school mentoring program is a friendship and activity based program that matches boys and girls in elementary schools with adult mentors for one hour per week. Teen mentor the teen mentoring program works in partnership with secondary schools and a teen 'buddy' mentors a child at an elementary school. Game on! Game on is a weekly group program that uses a mentor approach to provide boys with information a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2.1M | — | — | -$281 |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2M | — | — | $609 |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $1.9M | — | — | $659 |
| 2021 | $2M | $2M | $1.8M | — | — | -$59K |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.4M | $2.1M | — | — | -$74K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.3M from 13 charities:
- Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver Foundation$2.1M
- Aqueduct Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$65K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$15K
- Ames Family Foundation$10K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$8,833
- Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Association$8,000
- Vancouver Foundation$7,287
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$6,230
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,073
- United Way British Columbia$4,891
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Fred Haiderzada (chair); James Goulden (secretary); Mark Quinlan (treasurer); Gurv Brar (director); Gerry Egan (director); Steven Joe (director); Natasha Gordon (director); Whitney Buhlin (director); Valerie Lambert (executive director); Emily Yung (director finance & systems).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106793722RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.