Fort York Food Bank a Non-Profit Corporation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 867147464RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,094,263) as filed with the CRA.
Fort York Food Bank a Non-Profit Corporation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
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 90% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $258K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
We provide an integrated set of services to assist clients in a holistic way to reconnect with our community: 1) our food program provides three days of groceries consistent with the canada food guide as well as other supplies; 2) we serve hot meals through a take-out program; 3) we operate a food delivery program for low income seniors and others who are unable to access in person services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $15K | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $970K | $677K | $659K | $14K | — | $902K |
| 2022 | $719K | $545K | $452K | $9,070 | — | $609K |
| 2021 | $734K | $393K | $378K | $9,107 | — | $435K |
| 2020 | $258K | $245K | $236K | $5,221 | — | $94K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.2M from 36 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$3.3M
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$182K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$80K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$59K
- The Great Potential Foundation$25K
- The Atkinson Martin Family Foundation$25K
- Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation$23K
- Abraham and Malka Green Foundation$20K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$7,050
- BenefAction Foundation$7,000
- Bealight Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,983
- Toronto Foundation$3,750
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$2,930
- The Minhas Mohamed Foundation$2,500
- The Goodman Family Foundation$2,500
- RBC 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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$194K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Devasundari Arasanayagam (chair); Camille Jordaan (secretary); Ravi Sreedharan (treasurer); Leslie Gordon (director); Bob Gagne (director); Don Macmillan (director); May Tangthanasup (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fort York Food Bank a Non-Profit Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867147464RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.