Annual Report
2025–2026 Annual Report
A short look at BullyingCanada’s fiscal year, which ended on 31 March 2026.
What We Do
Rob Benn-Frenette and Katie Thompson (Neu) launched BullyingCanada on 17 December 2006. They were 17 and 14, they’d both been badly bullied, and they’d looked for help and found none. In 2026, it’s a full 24/7/365 support service, answered by hundreds of trained volunteers from across Canada.
Our Lifeline: Bullied Youth Support Network answers by phone, text, and email. Our trained volunteers and professional counsellors work one-on-one with each young person, their parents, and local supports for as long as it takes to end the bullying and help them heal.
We also give presentations about bullying to students, staff, workplaces, and community groups, help schools put a bullying policy in place and enforce it, and send out Lifeline wallet cards.
The Work in Numbers
These figures are for the 2025 calendar year.
3,428,665
desperate calls for help answered in 2025
20%
more calls for help than in 2024
2.5 min
average wait until a young person reaches a volunteer
720 million
visits to BullyingCanada.ca in 2025
104
languages BullyingCanada.ca is offered in
The Money
For the fiscal year ended 31 March 2026.
Total Revenue
$522,218.27
Up from $409,525.54 the year before.
Total Expenses
$506,034.68
Up from $405,319.24 the year before.
Excess of Revenue Over Expenses
$16,183.59
What was left at the end of the year.
Net Assets at Year End
$61,030.54
Up from $44,846.95 the year before.
Where It Came From
Donations brought in $452,231.39, and government rebates and donations brought in $69,986.88.
Where It Went
91% of what we spent went to our programs, most of it keeping the 24/7 Lifeline answering: the phone and text lines themselves, and the people who run them. 6% went to fundraising and 3% to administration.
Programs 91% $459,726
The 24/7 Lifeline, the people and technology behind it, volunteer training, wallet cards, and printed materials.
Fundraising 6% $31,817
Cause marketing, donor mail, and staff time spent raising money.
Administration 3% $14,492
Professional and bank fees, memberships, and staff time spent running the charity.
We sorted each line of our 2025–2026 statements into one of these three groups. Wages and other shared costs are split by management’s estimate of staff time: 90% programs, 5% fundraising, 5% administration. Postage is split evenly between program mail and donor mail. The total includes $192,875 of phone and text service donated by a corporate partner, which we count in programs.
How We Stay Accountable
Our statements are prepared under Canadian accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations and approved by our Board of Directors.
They aren’t audited. The Canada Revenue Agency has advised our board that, given the size of our operating budget, audited statements aren’t required.
Charitable registration number: 82991 7897 RR 0001
Thank You
None of this happens without our volunteers, our donors, and our sponsors. A generous corporate partner also made a targeted contribution during the year, to help us expand our national reach and keep our 24/7 support line running.
Meet Our Sponsors