Barrie Food Bank
Charitable organization · Barrie, Ontario · BN 106962251RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,798,352) as filed with the CRA.
Barrie Food Bank is a charitable organization based in Barrie, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 53 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
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 77% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Provide emergency food assistance and consultation and referral to encourage self sufficiency.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.8M | $2.7M | $33K | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $13K | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $8,303 | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $11K | — | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $810K | $644K | $32K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 53 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$520K
- Canadahelps Canadon$223K
- Canadahelps Canadon$223K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$170K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$72K
- Christian Stewardship Services$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$48K
- Legacy Plus Foundation Canada$20K
- First Christian Reformed Church of Barrie Ont$17K
- The Barrie Colts Foundation$15K
- The Pavlik Foundation$15K
- The Albarrie Foundation$10K
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Barrie$9,100
- The Tonglen Foundation$7,500
- The Rotary Club of Barrie Ontario Canada Inc.$7,000
- Honda Canada Foundation$5,000
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- The Elston Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Westminster Presbyterian Church$4,028
- The Tonglen Foundation$4,000
- West Oro Baptist Church$3,000
- The Styles Family Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,500
- Harvest Bible Chapel Barrie$2,400
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
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$550K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alan Pieprzak (treasurer); Linda Moorhouse (director); Chris Salazar (director); Dan Brubacher (vice chair); Lori Martin (director); AB Falconi (chair); George Hawtin (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Barrie Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106962251RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.