Food Rescue (Yellowknife)
Charitable organization · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 824295455RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($924,391) as filed with the CRA.
Food Rescue (Yellowknife) is a charitable organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $164K in revenue and $924K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 49% from government, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $102K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $872K in 2020 to $164K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Food Rescue Yellowknife is a non-profit organization that receives safe nutritious and useable food from local grocers which would otherwise be discarded and distributes it to non-profit organizations schools and daycares throughout the city. Since 2008 our operation has saved and distributed over 1.9 million kgs of food for the people of Yellowknife. That food is valued at an average of $5.70 per kg for a total value of an estimated 10 million dollars.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $164K | $924K | $148K | $1,434 | — | $313K |
| 2023 | $1M | $996K | — | $424 | — | $264K |
| 2022 | $865K | $910K | — | — | $515 | $185K |
| 2021 | $896K | $786K | $784K | — | $300 | — |
| 2020 | $872K | $898K | $895K | — | — | $77K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $102K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$60K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lesley Allen (president); Pamela Dunbar (secretary); Kristen Cameron (treasurer); Mark Bond (director); Gerri Whiteford (director); Francois Afane (director); Elsie De Roose (director); Melanie Williams (director); Margaret Kralt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food Rescue (Yellowknife)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824295455RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.