Food for Life Canada Charitable Corporation
Charitable organization · Burlington, Ontario · BN 890943772RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,936,769) as filed with the CRA.
Food for Life Canada Charitable Corporation is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $18M in revenue and $17.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 59 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.6M in 2020 to $18M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Food for Life is a regional leader in food rescuing and sharing good surplus food to charities and direct to neighbours ensuring everyone has access to good food. Built on a model of sustainability our unique supply chain works with all levels of the food system to support local food programs Good Food fridges community dinners food delivery programs. Focused research is aimed at using the power of rescued food as a lever to improve the health and economic situation of people and the planet.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18M | $17.9M | $17.4M | $246K | $0 | $447K |
| 2023 | $18.2M | $18.6M | $17.6M | $333K | $325K | $388K |
| 2022 | $18.2M | $18.2M | $17.2M | $343K | $370K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $17.6M | $17.5M | $16.9M | $281K | $59K | $852K |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $3.8M | $3.7M | $35K | $9,994 | $715K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 59 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$444K
- The Sprott Foundation$250K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$157K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$89K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$63K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$55K
- Food Banks Mississauga$52K
- Community Foundations of Canada$40K
- The Sprott Foundation$35K
- The Allstate Foundation of Canada$33K
- Surya Foundation$30K
- The Kaylou Foundation$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- RCO Charitable Fund$26K
- Right To Food$26K
- Oakville Community Foundation$26K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$24K
- Mazon Canada$21K
- Kindred Foundation$20K
- The Gift of Giving Back$17K
- JTC Heersink Foundation$15K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$10K
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Keery (chair); Robert Fowlie (treasurer); Noreen Marchand (director); Diane Slopek-Weber (vice-chair); Patrick Donnelly (secretary); Vanessa Topezcer (director); Steven Latimer (director); Muhammad Niazi (director); Elizabeth Volk (director); Cara Piggot (director); Karen Slonim (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food for Life Canada Charitable Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890943772RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.