Helping Hand Food Bank
Charitable organization · Tillsonburg, Ontario · BN 894153386RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($603,664) as filed with the CRA.
Helping Hand Food Bank is a charitable organization based in Tillsonburg, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $987K in revenue and $604K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $62K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Help to alleviate poverty in community by distributing free food to clients; supply snacks for school to families with children; provide packs of food for needy school children for weekends; home deliveries to physical/mobility challenged clients; provide food to churches and other local organizations who prepare community meals for needy; share extra food with other local food banks; provide personal hygiene items for needy secondary school students
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $987K | $604K | $591K | $0 | $0 | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $883K | $836K | $0 | $0 | $828K |
| 2022 | $736K | $586K | $548K | $291 | — | $660K |
| 2021 | $657K | $478K | $2,857 | $1,945 | — | $529K |
| 2020 | $679K | $489K | $4,705 | $0 | $0 | $351K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $62K from 14 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$16K
- The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation$15K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$10K
- Tillsonburg Christian Reformed Church$4,797
- First Baptist Church Tillsonburg Inc.$3,533
- The Tillsonburg Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,428
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- ST. Paul's United Church$1,804
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,339
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$10
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$5,687
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tom Langrell (director); Susan Saelens (director); Marian Smith (director treasurer); Sara Dekeyser (director); Amberleigh Lannoo (director secretary); Lance McKenzie (director); Wayne Vansevenant (director); Karlee Slattery (director); Doug Cooper (director president); Carol Currier (director vice president); Jennifer Goncalves (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Helping Hand Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894153386RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.