A Loving Spoonful Meals Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 140951310RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,169,635) as filed with the CRA.
A Loving Spoonful Meals Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 44% from government. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $114K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
A loving spoonful is a volunteer driven non partisan society that provides free nutritious meals and nutritional support to those living with hiv/aids and co-existing illness in metro vancouver. Every week all year round our volunteers (using their own vehicles and gas) deliver easy to prepare meals and snack packs to individuals and families who are primarily housebound. Many of the people that we serve have barriers to food security as well as mobility issues. We offer a variety of nutritionally balanced meals including consideration for specialized diets such as: easy to chew pureed re…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $34K | — | $724K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $32K | — | $743K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $36K | — | $747K |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $80K | — | $755K |
| 2020 | $937K | $943K | $649K | $219K | $0 | $479K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $114K from 17 charities:
- Al Roadburg Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$27K
- Al Roadburg Foundation$22K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,040
- Vancouver Foundation$4,524
- The Peterson Group Foundation$2,000
- Parish of ST. Christopher$2,000
- Collingwood School Society$1,200
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$850
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$570
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$500
- The Simons Foundation Canada$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$194
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$70
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$31
- United Way of Greater Toronto$15
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$395K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gerald Reggio (president); Ken Channon (treasurer); Jonny Staub (member at large); Don Roche (member at large); Suzanne Bidinost (member at large); Spencer Dane (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from A Loving Spoonful Meals Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140951310RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.