Aurora Food Pantry
Charitable organization · Aurora, Ontario · BN 801045584RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($707,789) as filed with the CRA.
Aurora Food Pantry is a charitable organization based in Aurora, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $819K in revenue and $708K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 5% from government, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $524K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Distributing food to the needy in Aurora and north Oak Ridges
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $819K | $708K | $507K | $0 | $0 | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $711K | $500K | $397K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $494K | $418K | $308K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $477K | $285K | $106K | — | — | $979K |
| 2020 | $596K | $250K | $89K | — | — | $788K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $524K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$227K
- Canadahelps Canadon$227K
- BenefAction Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$6,837
- Conam Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,790
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$1,366
- Aurora Seniors Association$1,348
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,012
- Harbourfront Gives Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$388
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$60
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$26
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$201K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Maureen Casey (director); Chris Neal (director); Denise Steadman (director); Scott Allan (treasurer); Edmund Villamere (director); Rick Andrews (director); Neil Curran (director); Allison Boyd (director); Susan Duggan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aurora Food Pantry’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801045584RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.