Eden Food for Change
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 864407259RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,707,967) as filed with the CRA.
Eden Food for Change is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 12% from government. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
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 28% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Food bank activities including: 1. Food distribution to qualified individuals and their families living in selected areas of mississauga 2.providing education to develop food skills to encourage healthy eating
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $22K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $25K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $904K | $42K | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $880K | $19K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $895K | $583K | $40K | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.4M from 35 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$1.8M
- United Way of Greater Toronto$161K
- Canadahelps Canadon$116K
- Canadahelps Canadon$116K
- The Fyfe Foundation$50K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$46K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$37K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$27K
- Right To Food$25K
- Trinity Church$6,500
- Mississauga Foundation$5,378
- The Tenaquip Foundation$5,000
- The City Church of Mississauga$4,450
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$4,037
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,000
- The Peel District School Board$2,771
- Bayshore Foundation for Empowered Living$2,114
- Canada Gives$2,000
- Mississauga Fire Fighters Benevolent Fund$2,000
- Mississauga Festival Choir$1,821
- Toronto Foundation$1,500
- Streetsville United Church$1,425
- Centreview Church$1,400
- Rotary Club of Mississauga Foundation$1,000
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$687K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Laura Frith (treasurer); Imran Hasan (vice president); Paramveer Kainth (director); Sanjay Ghaness (director); Shawn Cruz (director); Shakira Scaini (secretary); Ruchika Khanna (director); Philip Ip (director); Leanne De Souza (director); Diana Li (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Eden Food for Change’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864407259RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.