Food4Kids Hamilton
Charitable organization · Stoney Creek, Ontario · BN 833297484RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,105,800) as filed with the CRA.
Food4Kids Hamilton is a charitable organization based in Stoney Creek, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $608K.
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 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To provide healthy food for children aged 4-14 years with limited or no food weekends or during the summer months.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | $872K | $7,604 | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $965K | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $990K | $1.1M | $911K | $3,617 | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $998K | $798K | $0 | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $992K | $765K | $9,364 | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $608K from 30 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$218K
- Canadahelps Canadon$218K
- Food4Kids Ontario$61K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$32K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Charitable Trust of Rotary Club of Flamborough A.M.$9,550
- Foundation for Human Development$7,500
- RBC Foundation$7,500
- Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation$5,000
- Sydney Wood Purple Butterfly of Hope Foundation$5,000
- The McKeil Family Foundation$5,000
- The Maudsley Family Foundation$3,000
- Nora's Gift Foundation$2,500
- Columbia International Scholarship Endowment Fund$2,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,385
- Unity Spiritual Centre$1,203
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,186
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$941
- Macneill Baptist Church$700
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$648
- Caledonia United Church$631
- Calvin (dundas) Christian Reformed Church$553
- Brant Hills Presbyterian Church$500
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$349
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
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$226K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joel Tanner (vice chair); Rachel Harrington (treasurer); Jason Urban (director); Paul Hamilton (director); Lisa Neale (chair); John Madalena (director); Rachel Osborne (director); Dale Hill (director); Adiranna Inneo (director); Simoni Lawrence (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food4Kids Hamilton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 833297484RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.