Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 130643737RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($92,619,935) as filed with the CRA.
Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $91.8M in revenue and $92.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 25% from government. In 2024, 93 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9.8M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 475 qualified donees totalling $18.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.2M to The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $53.6M in 2020 to $91.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Food banks canada's mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network in canada. Food banks canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to helping canadians living with food insecurity. We support a network of provincial associations affiliate food banks and food agencies that work at the community level to relieve hunger. Our work is focused on maximizing collective impact strengthening local capacity and reducing the need for food banks. Our ongoing programs include programs and services to…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $91.8M | $92.6M | $64M | $5.4M | $22.2M | $28.3M |
| 2023 | $55.9M | $63.8M | $32.5M | $5.3M | $24.9M | $36.6M |
| 2022 | $92.2M | $79.5M | $39M | $3.8M | $35.7M | $37.1M |
| 2021 | $190.8M | $178.3M | $79.9M | $2.2M | $94.7M | $24.4M |
| 2020 | $53.6M | $54.4M | $30.4M | $1.4M | $21.5M | $11.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18.6M to 475 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$1.2M
- Feed Nova Scotia Society$699K
- Fredericton Community Services Inc.$639K
- Ontario Association of Food Banks$473K
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$466K
- Edmonton Gleaners Association$437K
- Faith Food Bank Society$395K
- The Ottawa Food Bank/la Banque d'Alimentation d'Ottawa$319K
- Food Bank Society of Whitehorse$314K
- Share Family and Community Services Society$309K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$283K
- Food Banks Alberta Association$273K
- Food Banks Mississauga$269K
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$262K
- Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc.$212K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$203K
- Red Deer Food Bank Society$201K
- Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern Ontario$197K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$197K
- Food Banks of Québec$192K
- Moisson Quebec Inc.$189K
- Food Depot Alimentaire Inc.$174K
- Moisson Montréal Inc.$170K
- Barrie Food Bank$170K
- Sources Community Resources Society$165K
Received $9.8M from 93 charities:
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$6M
- The Slaight Family Foundation$1.2M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$613K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$405K
- Canadahelps Canadon$295K
- Canadahelps Canadon$295K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$180K
- Air Canada Foundation$150K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$92K
- The Nissan Canada Foundation /la Fondation Nissan Canada$70K
- Dr. Lou and Mae Lukenda Charitable Foundation$50K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$45K
- Aqueduct Foundation$43K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$42K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$30K
- BenefAction Foundation$30K
- Airlie Foundation$25K
- Guardian Capital Inc. Charitable Trust$25K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$22K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$15K
- The Richter Charitable Foundation/la Fondation Charitable Richter$14K
- Harbourfront Gives Foundation$14K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$11K
- Frisia Foundation$10K
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$5.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marjorie Bencz (board of director); Sylvie Cloutier (board of director); John Bayliss (board of director); Ilya Bahar (board of director treasurer); Ryan Bahadursingh (board of director); Mary-Jo Hewat (board of director); Tony Chow (board of director); Dany Hetu (board of director); David Long (board of director); Daman Thable (board of director); June Muir (board of director); Rosemary McCrie (board of director); Peter Singer (board of director); Linda Beairsto (board of director); Barbara Gosse (board of director); Randall Kahgee (board of director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130643737RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.