Burlington Food Bank
Charitable organization · Burlington, Ontario · BN 889638946RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,597,456) as filed with the CRA.
Burlington Food Bank is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 15% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 38 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
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 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $203K in 2024, the largest being $198K to Feed Halton. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We operate a food bank serving residents of Burlington Ontario. During 2024 we employed 10 full-time employees and 6 part time /seasonal employees. Our volunteers worked a total of 13 757 hours. The Halton Food Connect project which commenced in 2022 is a joint project with Kerr Street Mission in Oakville and Halton Food For Life. The project is completely funded by Halton Region to address food security for Ontario Works clients within the Region of Halton. Eligible clients receive a healthy food box delivered to their homes typically including produce and frozen protein. Halton R…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.6M | $1.2M | $69K | $1.1M | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.1M | $65K | $691K | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $819K | $722K | $34K | $10K | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $585K | $516K | $32K | $5,100 | $3M |
| 2020 | $2M | $452K | $383K | $27K | $10K | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $203K to 3 qualified donees:
- Feed Halton$198K
- Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church$3,000
- Wellington Square United Church$2,100
Received $1.1M from 38 charities:
- The Freeburne Banting Foundation$200K
- Canadahelps Canadon$176K
- Canadahelps Canadon$176K
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$120K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$93K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$53K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$52K
- Food Banks Mississauga$42K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$38K
- The Gift of Giving Back$17K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$11K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Law Society Foundation$6,388
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$5,800
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,000
- Rotary Club of Burlington North Foundation Inc.$2,972
- Burlington Community Foundation$2,800
- Foundation for Human Development$2,500
- Nora's Gift Foundation$2,500
- ST. Stephen United Church$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,482
- Vancouver Foundation$2,000
- The Starfish Foundation$1,971
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$743K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Derek Richard Owens (director/secr(from 22-03-31)); Geraldine Hewitt (director); Rhonda Weppler (director); Brendan McNulty (treasurer); Stephanie Neate (director); Dave Dyson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Burlington Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889638946RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.