Growing Chefs! Ontario Society
Charitable organization · London, Ontario · BN 858959026RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,717,868) as filed with the CRA.
Growing Chefs! Ontario Society is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 9% from government. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $410K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $737K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
All growing chefs! Food education programs provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities for children designed to build cooking skills food literacy and an understanding of food systems. Growing chefs! Runs both in-person and virtual programs that fall into two categories: - school projects: which are run in partnership with public and private elementary and high schools - community projects: which are run in partnership with community agencies and available to the general public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $202K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.4M | — | — | $225K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $214K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $937K | — | — | $202K |
| 2020 | $737K | $729K | $625K | — | — | $141K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $410K from 17 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$120K
- The Lawson Foundation$100K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- The Schad Foundation$30K
- London Community Foundation$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- London Knights Alumni Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Jack and Barbara Hay Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- The Brian and Heather Semkowski Family Foundation$5,000
- Richard and Shelley Baker Family Foundation$5,000
- Nature London Inc.$3,900
- Kiwanis Club of Forest City - London$1,400
- Cambia Development Foundation$1,000
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$50
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$853K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jordan Hypes (chair); Cecile Klerks (director); Malcolm Scott (director); Andrew Wolwowicz (director); Mary Hajpel (treasurer); Michael Clark (secretary); Caitlin Fisher (director); Nicholas Cardelli (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Growing Chefs! Ontario Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858959026RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.