Alberta · Registered charity
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) (Alberta) receives grants from 72 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,196,704 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$1,942,892). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$3.5M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- C$6.2M
- Net assets
- C$2.2M
What Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area (Formerly Aunts and Uncles at Large) does
Ongoing programs
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 resilient young people who are able to overcome life’s adversities and achieve more. Dollars raised will help us create and nurture life-changing mentoring relationships for children and youth in and around Calgary who need them the most.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$1.4M to C$2.6M (+78%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 38% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 59% · 2023 53% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 30 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell C$914k → C$487k.
From the CRA filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 53% · 2019 45% · 2020 55% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)'s grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 48% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) (Alberta) receives grants from 72 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,196,704 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$1,942,892). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 72 organizations giving C$6,196,704 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE), 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE)?
- UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA is the largest funder on record, with C$1,942,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA (FORMERLY AUNTS AND UNCLES AT LARGE) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 72 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register