Ponoka and Recreation District Big Brothers and Big Sisters Society
Publicly funded institution · Ponoka, Alberta · BN 107851776RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($264,689) as filed with the CRA.
Ponoka and Recreation District Big Brothers and Big Sisters Society is a charitable organization based in Ponoka, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, it reported $114K in revenue and $265K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 54% from government, 17% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $18K.
Compared with 1,981 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $210K in 2020 to $114K in 2023.
In its own words
Traditional match summer programs in-school mentoring
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $114K | $265K | $23K | $23K | $122K | — |
| 2022 | $181K | $258K | $116K | $23K | $75K | $150K |
| 2021 | $193K | $184K | $88K | $24K | — | $227K |
| 2020 | $210K | $180K | $84K | $21K | — | $217K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $18K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$59K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ponoka and Recreation District Big Brothers and Big Sisters Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107851776RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.