Food Stash Foundation
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 748078524RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,304,629) as filed with the CRA.
Food Stash Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 15% from government, 48% from other charities. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $726K.
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 66% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,000 in 2024, the largest being $1,000 to Heart Tattoo Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $756K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Food Stash Foundation prevents good food from going to waste and provides dignified food access. The organization rescues over 130 000 pounds of surplus perishable food per month from over 25 local grocery stores wholesalers and farms. About 80% of this healthy food is delivered to 38 community-serving partner organizations and the remainder is provided directly to community members through weekly Rescued Food Box home deliveries to over 120 households and an affordable Rescued Food Market that is open to the public. Over 70 active volunteers support the organization each month with sorting …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $122K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $117K |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.4M | $3.3M | — | — | $69K |
| 2021 | $708K | $3M | $596K | — | — | $215K |
| 2020 | $756K | $591K | — | — | — | $326K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,000 to 1 qualified donee:
- Heart Tattoo Society$1,000
Received $726K from 36 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$159K
- Canadahelps Canadon$159K
- Aqueduct Foundation$56K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$43K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$37K
- Food Banks British Columbia$30K
- United Way British Columbia$30K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$20K
- Mazon Canada$19K
- Vancouver Foundation$18K
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$16K
- The Wolrige Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- The Shields Foundation$10K
- The McLean Foundation$10K
- Harbourfront Gives Foundation$6,600
- USANA True Health Canada Foundation$5,888
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$5,000
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Unitarians Society$3,000
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$2,500
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$806K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leonard Schein (treasurer); David Schein (director); Matthew Livingston (director); Sophie Kelk (director); Joben David (chair); Anna Migicovsky (director); Alexander Brais (director); Julie Dickson Olmstead (director at large); Larry Ho (director at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food Stash Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 748078524RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.