Kanata Food Cupboard
Charitable organization · Kanata, Ontario · BN 736310095RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($898,229) as filed with the CRA.
Kanata Food Cupboard is a charitable organization based in Kanata, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $898K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 59% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
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 74% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $100 in 2024, the largest being $100 to Ottawa Valley Wild Bird CARE Centre. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To provide food and other essentials to families in need in the kanata area
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $898K | $846K | $2,588 | $100 | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $1M | $655K | $605K | $990 | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $797K | $527K | $470K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $769K | $355K | $320K | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $407K | $373K | $6,470 | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.2M from 25 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$491K
- Canadahelps Canadon$491K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$32K
- Arno Family Foundation$18K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$16K
- The Graham Family Foundation$10K
- Kanata Baptist Church Congregation Inc.$7,994
- Kanata Community Christian Reformed Church Inc.$6,936
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall$5,600
- The Robert Campeau Family Foundation$5,500
- Brookside Baptist Church$5,500
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$3,886
- BenefAction Foundation$3,200
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$2,980
- Ferguson Family Foundation$2,000
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board$1,844
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,250
- Trinity Presbyterian Church$1,124
- The William and Jean Teron Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$859
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$825
- The Canadian Celiac Association Ottawa Chapter$550
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$486
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
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$203K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynn Barclay (director); Lindsay Coffin (director); John Cunningham (director); Cody Guthrie (director); Lesley Ryan (treasurer); Jennifer Thomsen (director); Natalie Gouthro (director); Mohammad Mousa (director); Jerry Rankin (director); Shelley Seward-White (director); Demetria Tsoutouras (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kanata Food Cupboard’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 736310095RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.