Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 890671324RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,744,392) as filed with the CRA.
Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 68% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.5M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $2.1M to Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Big brothers of greater vancouver foundation supports the registered charity big brothers of greater vancouver through the issuance of grants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.7M | — | $292K | $2.1M | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.7M | — | $402K | $2M | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.6M | — | $445K | $1.9M | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2M | — | — | $1.3M | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.5M | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.5M from 9 charities:
- The 625 Powell Street Foundation$1.8M
- Renew Crew Foundation$1.6M
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Bridges Family Memorial Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,370
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,500
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$24
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$284K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steven Joe (chair); Corbin Lowe (secretary); Connor Aylwin (treasurer); Harry Pokrandt (director); Jeff Cutler (director); Matt Siemens (director); Charmane Sing (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 Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890671324RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.