Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 118831106RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($83,345,755) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc. is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $85.8M in revenue and $83.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 59% from government, 17% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 399 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.3M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 59 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $19.9M in 2024, the largest being $12.1M to World Renew. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $50M in 2020 to $85.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 23 names.
In its own words
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a partnership of Canadian churches and church-based agencies working to end hunger in developing countries. The charitable programs include provision of food to hungry people funding of programs to improve nutrition assisting communities and households to feed themselves education of Canadians about international hunger issues and advocating for policy changes necessary to end hunger. The international program is delivered through its member agencies and their operational partners in developing countries.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $85.8M | $83.3M | $41.2M | $2.1M | $33.1M | $55M |
| 2023 | $82.2M | $81.4M | $40.4M | $2M | $33.6M | $52.4M |
| 2022 | $64M | $56.8M | $27.2M | $1.5M | $23.7M | $51.5M |
| 2021 | $55.1M | $47.2M | $24.4M | $1.5M | $17.1M | $44.3M |
| 2020 | $50M | $50M | $27.3M | $1.4M | $17.1M | $36.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $19.9M to 19 qualified donees:
- World Renew$12.1M
- Mennonite Central Committee Canada$4M
- The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada$2.1M
- PIH Partners In Health Canada$649K
- Tearfund Canada$327K
- Erdo$179K
- The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada$109K
- Organisation Catholique Canadienne pour le Développement et la Paix$100K
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief$96K
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$52K
- The United Church of Canada$34K
- Cooperation Canada$19K
- Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales$15K
- Canadian Baptist Ministries$14K
- Adra Canada$13K
- Kentro Christian Network$11K
- The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada/ l'Alliance Chretienne et Missionnaire au Canada$6,071
- Church of the Nazarene Canada$3,041
- The Salvation Army$2,001
Received $5.3M from 399 charities:
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$1M
- Abundance Canada$641K
- Canadahelps Canadon$269K
- Canadahelps Canadon$269K
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief$230K
- Tearfund Canada$225K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$133K
- Canada Gives$121K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$106K
- Aqueduct Foundation$102K
- Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Listowel$80K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$78K
- BenefAction Foundation$78K
- The Calgary Foundation$61K
- Greenwald Charitable Trust$61K
- The Christian Reformed Church of Granum Alberta Canada$59K
- The United Church of Canada$55K
- Tofield Alliance Church$50K
- The Pindoff Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$50K
- Milltown Charitable Trust$48K
- Neerlandia Christian Reformed Church$42K
- Christian Stewardship Services$42K
- Bethesda Lutheran Church$42K
- Ypma Family Foundation$35K
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
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions59
- Total compensation, all staff$6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Afua Adobea Mante (vice chair); David Adcock (secretary); Marion Ausmus (treasurer); Steve Matthews (director); Bruce Pate (director); Stephane Vinhas (director); Justine Shenher (director); Andrew Porterfield (director); Rick Cober Bauman (director); Will Postma (director); Guy Smagghe (director); Wayne Johnson (director); Pamela Wilson McCormick (director); Brenda Murray (director); Japhet Ndhlovu (director); Nicole Jones-Qandah (director); Charles Aguilar (director); Marg Hoogland (director); Gordon Brew (director); Jan McIntyre (director); Nicole Solis (director); Akililu Hunge (director); Ron Cartmell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118831106RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.