Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Food Banks British Columbia

Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 861331130RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedFood Banks British ColumbiaFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$71
Charitable programs$24
Management & admin$5
TOTAL$100
RegisteredPublicly funded

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,567,747) as filed with the CRA.

Food Banks British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Surrey, British Columbia, 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 $15.8M in revenue and $15.6M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 62% from government, 30% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.6M.

Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.

It reported gifts to 134 qualified donees totalling $11M in 2024, the largest being $1.8M to Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $15.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.

In its own words

Providing community food bank with the support and resources necessery to enable them to accept store and distribute donations of fresh nutritious produce protein dairy etc to those enduring hunger and food insecurity across the province of bc. Assisting community food banks with food transporation costs when food needs to be accessed from outside their area. Operating the bc coupon program which directly benefits community food bank enabling them to purchase locally whichever food they need at the time. Providing emergency assistance to communities experiencing food insecurity due to unfo…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$15.8M$15.6M$3.6M—$11.1M$4.8M
2023$9.1M$9.5M$1.7M—$7.1M$4.6M
2022$10.7M$8.2M$864K—$6.8M$4.6M
2021$16M$695K$680K——$2.1M
2020$2.2M$556K$529K——$1.3M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $11M to 134 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 134 grants

Received $5.6M from 29 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $120,000–159,9991 position
  • $40,000–79,9992 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions3
  • Total compensation, all staff$517K

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Scott Nicoll (chair); Cathy Chaplow (treasurer); Gordon Hogg (director); Leventine Adams (director); Scott Zayac (director); Hajira Hussain (director); Treska Watson (director); Lucille Gnanasihamany (director); Carol Camille (director); Sydney Goodfellow (director); Lindsay Miles-Pickup (director); Mavis Erickson (director); Mike Olsen (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Food Banks British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861331130RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.