Food for the Poor of Canada Inc
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890759970RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,414,444) as filed with the CRA.
Food for the Poor of Canada Inc is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $487K.
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 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $10K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Restoration and Empowerment for Social Transition Centre. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $10.1M in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Food for the poor-canada is a faith-based organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in latin america and the caribbean. Our humanitarian aid provides resources such as food housing and clean water. We also focus on supporting sustainable development initiatives for education health and enhancement of livelihood. We work to defend human dignity and provide care to those in need via five (5) areas of impact: food security housing and community education economic empowerment and health we also provide emergency response services by supporting in-country partners following natural dis…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.4M | $1M | $224K | $10K | $278K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.6M | $257K | $10K | $97K |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $2.9M | $234K | $4,500 | $210K |
| 2021 | $3M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $208K | $20K | $136K |
| 2020 | $10.1M | $10.3M | $9.9M | $234K | $32K | $156K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $487K from 13 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$125K
- Canadahelps Canadon$125K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$114K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$40K
- The Petman Foundation$35K
- BenefAction Foundation$31K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,864
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,500
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,240
- London Community Foundation$1,000
- The Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada$660
- Christian Stewardship Services$500
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$295K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Suzanne Robinson Davis (director); Celia Meikle (treasurer); Cherie Payne (co-chair); Shaneka Shaw Taylor (director); Richard Verasamy (co-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food for the Poor of Canada Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890759970RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.