Daily Bread Food Bank
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118881549RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($87,069,775) as filed with the CRA.
Daily Bread Food Bank is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $84.6M in revenue and $87.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 220 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15.5M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 99 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 135 qualified donees totalling $45.8M in 2024, the largest being $4.3M to Agincourt Community Services Association Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $51.5M in 2020 to $84.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs: the mission of the daily bread food bank is to alleviate hunger and help fight the underlying poverty that causes hunger. This is done in several ways: 1. Through the collection and distribution of food through its 108 000 sq. Ft. Distribution center to its approximately 170 member agency programs. 2. Ensuring that food distribution occuts across toronto by supporting agencies in their initial creation and ongoing operations. 3. Through research on poverty education and advocating for improved government policies to eliminate poverty. 4. Providing an information and ref…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $84.6M | $87.1M | $34.3M | $4.9M | $46.6M | $38M |
| 2023 | $67.7M | $64.9M | $25.5M | $4.1M | $34.2M | $40.5M |
| 2022 | $60.2M | $60.8M | $11.3M | $3.4M | $45.2M | $39.4M |
| 2021 | $60.6M | $43.9M | $7.4M | $2.9M | $32.9M | $40M |
| 2020 | $51.5M | $37.4M | $7.9M | $2.6M | $26.2M | $23.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $45.8M to 135 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Agincourt Community Services Association Inc.$4.3M
- Fort York Food Bank a Non-Profit Corporation$3.3M
- Scarborough Food Security Initiative$3.1M
- Grace Place$3.1M
- Parkdale Community Food Bank$1.6M
- Tno - the Neighbourhood Organization$1.6M
- The Incorporated Ministry in Flemingdon Park$1.2M
- SOSO World Ministries$1.2M
- The Housing Help Centre$1.1M
- Allan Gardens Food Bank$1M
- Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc.$968K
- Scott Mission$775K
- Seeds of Hope Foundation$679K
- Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities$656K
- OneChurch.to$653K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$650K
- Our Saviour Lutheran Church$636K
- Friends Of Jesus Christ Food Bank$631K
- Emmanuel Life Management Center$617K
- Church of the Messiah$600K
- Haven on the Queensway$581K
- Oasis Dufferin Community Centre$572K
- The Yonge Street Mission$564K
- Canadian South Asian Growth and Support Services (CSAGSS)$528K
- Churches-ON-The-Hill Food Bank$526K
Received $15.5M from 220 charities:
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$2M
- The Slaight Family Foundation$1.5M
- Donald Bainbridge Family Foundation$1.5M
- Canadahelps Canadon$974K
- Canadahelps Canadon$974K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$961K
- Food Banks Mississauga$724K
- BenefAction Foundation$659K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$500K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$450K
- The Sprott Foundation$300K
- Toronto Foundation$300K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$236K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$209K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$203K
- Arrell Family Foundation$200K
- Aqueduct Foundation$197K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$150K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$150K
- The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation$150K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$150K
- Canada Gives$130K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$104K
- Lily Street Foundation$100K
- The Halatsis Family Foundation$100K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions99
- Total compensation, all staff$8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amos Sarwan (director); Anthony Santilli (director); Ben Wise (director); Bill Argeropoulos (director); Boafoa Kwamena (director); Christine Yip (director); Emmy Kelly (director); Gale Kelly (chair); Gaylen Duncn (vice-chair); Jamille Clarke-Darshanand (director); Jitendra Badiani (treasurer); Karen Hsiung (director); Maheen Merchant (corporate secretary); Nicole Barry (director); Rajiv Sujan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Daily Bread Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118881549RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.