Friends in Need Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Maple Ridge, British Columbia · BN 889138772RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($913,084) as filed with the CRA.
Friends in Need Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $913K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations, 8% from government. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
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 2% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Providing food for the hungry in maple ridge and pitt meadows bc
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $913K | $175K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $905K | $904K | $176K | — | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $842K | $790K | $113K | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $965K | $903K | $122K | — | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $924K | $801K | $175K | $3,515 | — | $920K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 21 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$361K
- Canadahelps Canadon$361K
- The Maple Ridge Community Foundation$171K
- Food Banks British Columbia$113K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$69K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$27K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Meadowridge School Society$9,020
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Golden Ears United Church$3,996
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$3,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$2,054
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- ST-Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church$1,964
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,121
- The Georgina Foundation$1,000
- Maple Ridge Christian Reformed Church$990
- Cornerstone Korean Community Church$900
- First West Foundation$859
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$243
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$359K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrence Anderson (director); Ineke Boekhorst (co-secretary); Eva Boyd (director); Jonie Lagrange (treasurer); Lynda Lawrence (chairperson); Debbie Macrae (co-secretary); Gwen O'Connell (vice chairperson); Sandra Ramsay (director); Ahmed Yousef (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends in Need Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889138772RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.