Growing Chefs Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 841127566RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($985,006) as filed with the CRA.
Growing Chefs Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $985K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 37% from government, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $764K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Too many kids don’t know where food comes from or have access to nourishing whole food. We’re on a mission to change that. Growing Chefs trains and supports chef and community volunteers to deliver our Classroom Gardening & Cooking Program. Our dedicated volunteers lead mentor and inspire the students to grow vegetables in their classrooms and learn to cook healthy nutritious meals with what they grow. Through a series of lessons they transform students’ relationship with food. Our innovative collaborative and hands-on program LunchLAB provides healthy nutritious lunches to stu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $985K | $646K | $109K | — | $358K |
| 2023 | $650K | $668K | $464K | $58K | — | $295K |
| 2022 | $511K | $501K | $308K | $79K | — | $335K |
| 2021 | $566K | $483K | $186K | $177K | — | $315K |
| 2020 | $727K | $656K | $428K | $87K | $194K | $222K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $764K from 24 charities:
- The Annual Foundation$155K
- Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society$136K
- Canadahelps Canadon$85K
- Canadahelps Canadon$85K
- United Way British Columbia$82K
- BenefAction Foundation$25K
- Seedlings Foundation$20K
- Openroad Foundation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$10K
- Chris-Spencer Foundation$10K
- Ames Family Foundation$10K
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$9,000
- Louis Family Foundation$5,000
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$5,000
- Endswell 2021 Foundation$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$750
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$500
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation$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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$764K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Growing Chefs Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841127566RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.