Food4Kids Waterloo Region
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 751269895RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,581,437) as filed with the CRA.
Food4Kids Waterloo Region is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 45 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $587K.
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 39% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $685K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Food4kids waterloo region provides healthy food packages to children ages 1-14 from severe food insecure homes during weekends and school breaks when kids are not in school and unable to access school nutrition programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $32K | — | $593K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $269 | — | $513K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1M | $13K | — | $394K |
| 2021 | $922K | $797K | $616K | $6,652 | — | $233K |
| 2020 | $685K | $711K | $517K | $6,275 | $75K | $108K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $587K from 45 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$121K
- Canadahelps Canadon$118K
- Canadahelps Canadon$118K
- Trinity United Church$40K
- ST. Matthews (kitchener) Lutheran Church$20K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$18K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$15K
- Waterloo Education Foundation Inc.$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$13K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$11K
- The Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$8,039
- Abundance Canada$6,100
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- The Vaux Family Foundation$5,000
- Bethel Lutheran Church$4,250
- Nith Valley Mennonite Church$3,000
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$3,000
- Shantz Mennonite Church$2,702
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$2,430
- Rotary Club of Kitchener Grand River Charitable Foundation$2,000
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$322K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martin Mahlstedt (director); Colin Woodworth (treasurer); Cameron Redmond (vice president); Jessica Nurse (director); Faaez Al-Hendi (director); Josh Bruce (director); Corina Chang (director); Rebecca George (director); Michelle Newlands (director); Arden White (director); Anthony Oladele (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Food4Kids Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 751269895RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.