Foodshare Toronto
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107392359RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,015,149) as filed with the CRA.
Foodshare Toronto 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 $7.5M in revenue and $8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 7% from government, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 54 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.1M.
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 78% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Foodshare toronto operated a variety of programs across toronto and the gta. Those programs include the box program ( a non-profit fresh food distribution system); baby students and seniors nutrition gardens; community kitchen; field to table catering; focus on food training program; urban argricultures; and the kitchen incubator.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.5M | $8M | $7.6M | $126K | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $9.2M | $8.8M | $7.7M | $51K | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $10.2M | $10.1M | $9.2M | $64K | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $11.4M | $11.4M | $10.5M | $102K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $10.7M | $10.2M | $9.3M | $173K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.1M from 54 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$554K
- Canadahelps Canadon$554K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$455K
- The Sprott Foundation$375K
- Balsam Foundation$195K
- Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security$150K
- Toronto Foundation$109K
- Aqueduct Foundation$100K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$90K
- The Dragonfly Fund$77K
- The Purpleville Foundation$75K
- The Sprott Foundation$50K
- The Alva Foundation$50K
- MLSE Foundation$25K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$25K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$25K
- The Atkinson Martin Family Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Makeway Foundation$20K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$16K
- The Conn Smythe Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$10K
- Right To Food$9,390
- The Bespoke Foundation$7,200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wendy Blain (director); Victoria Blanco Salcedo (director co-chair); Germaine Catchpole (director); Natalie Cox (director); Hannah Devanesan (director); Sameera Karim (director); Michelle Macdonald (director co-treasurer); Jessica Mulder (director); Nader Qawasmi (director co-chair); Bindra Shah (director); Jackie Silverberg (director); Russell B. Speares (director); Jennifer Vachon (director secretary); Julia Vlad (director co-treasurer); Erica Wright (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Foodshare Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107392359RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.