Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 107449787RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($35,165,150) as filed with the CRA.
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $42.2M in revenue and $35.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 183 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.6M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 82 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 100 qualified donees totalling $9.4M in 2024, the largest being $773K to North Shore Neighbourhood House. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $26.6M in 2020 to $42.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its Vancouver Burnaby New Westminster and North Shore catchment cities. The organization also provides food to the community through partnerships with 150+ Community Agencies and 5 Provincial Agencies which include affordable housing agencies women's and children's shelters and after-school programs providing groceries hot meals and snacks to thousands of peo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $42.2M | $35.2M | $21.2M | $2.9M | $9.7M | $37.3M |
| 2023 | $36.3M | $32M | $20.2M | $2.4M | $8M | $30.2M |
| 2022 | $29M | $26.1M | $16.1M | $2.4M | $6.5M | $25.9M |
| 2021 | $32.9M | $23.6M | $20.2M | $2.1M | $479K | $23M |
| 2020 | $26.6M | $19.2M | $16.2M | $1.8M | — | $13.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9.4M to 100 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- North Shore Neighbourhood House$773K
- ST. Aidan's Presbyterian Church$597K
- Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society$585K
- Lookout Housing and Health Society$436K
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia$394K
- Lake Country Food Assistance Society$340K
- Cityreach CARE Society$337K
- Westcoast Baptist Association$326K
- Parish of ST. Augustine$280K
- Storehouse Community Hub Society$256K
- Shiloh-Sixth Avenue United Church$251K
- House of Omeed$239K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 41 (Burnaby)$219K
- The Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families$201K
- Archway Community Services Society$178K
- Sunset Community Association$166K
- Southside Community Church$157K
- First Funds Society$157K
- Raincity Housing and Support Society$154K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$150K
- Southside Community Church$142K
- Helping Spirit Lodge Society$139K
- Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society$137K
- Atira Women's Resource Society$125K
- Watari Counselling & Support Services Society$123K
Received $5.6M from 183 charities:
- Food Banks British Columbia$1.8M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$450K
- Canadahelps Canadon$346K
- Canadahelps Canadon$346K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$308K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$296K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$262K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$197K
- Vancouver Foundation$183K
- T-Gear Foundation$135K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$100K
- BenefAction Foundation$82K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$52K
- Krogseth Foundation$50K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$50K
- Pei Lee Charitable Foundation$50K
- Longhedge Foundation$50K
- Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Association$44K
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundation$35K
- Chernoff Family Foundation$30K
- United Way British Columbia$29K
- Aqueduct Foundation$28K
- The Stuart and Susan Bird Family Foundation$25K
- The Collings Stevens Family Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions82
- Total compensation, all staff$5.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Metras (director); Fiona Macdonald (director & board chair); Kathryn Holm (director & vice chair); Alexandra Wenly Julianto (director); Keith Martin (director); Ed Ratnarajah (director); Brahm Kornbluth (director); Robin Smith (director); Jonathan Cote (director); Lisa Coltart (director); Doug Allen (director); Lynn Pelletier (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107449787RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.