Ontario · Registered charity
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$645,384 to it, the largest being The Alan Quesnel Family Foundation (C$500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION's revenue fell 28% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,747 foundations nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Caritas St. Jerome of Windsor Ontario Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fundlocalportfolio match
- The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell C$14k → C$4k.
From the CRA filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 96% · 2019 34% · 2020 47% · 2021 46% · 2022 86% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
100% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$46k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Caritas St. Jerome of Windsor Ontario Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fundlocalportfolio matchON · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Windsor Spitfires Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Toldo Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Holy Name Council No. 3305 Charitable Welfare Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Windsor Volunteers for Literacy FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Rosati Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lucier Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local 200 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Ethel Cohen Family FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Francis-Keystone FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION
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 Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$645,384 to it, the largest being The Alan Quesnel Family Foundation (C$500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$645,384 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION?
- The Alan Quesnel Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WINDSOR ESSEX FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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 13 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register