Kawartha Lakes Food Source
Charitable organization · Lindsay, Ontario · BN 862545712RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($829,669) as filed with the CRA.
Kawartha Lakes Food Source is a charitable organization based in Lindsay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $852K in revenue and $830K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $224K.
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 9% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs: we obtain non-perishable food from reclamation companies donations and food drives. The food is sorted and stored then distributed to our member agancies on a fair share basis. Member agencies are food bank/cupboards etc. That provide food to needy invididuals in the city of kawartha lakes. Other activities include promotion of awareness and its impact. We also purchase/grow and distribute perishable food including fruit and vegetables to enhance nutritional value of food available in local school breakfast programs and for families served by our member agencies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $852K | $830K | $379K | $22K | — | $797K |
| 2023 | $707K | $698K | $308K | $31K | — | $775K |
| 2022 | $755K | $790K | $365K | $26K | — | $767K |
| 2021 | $729K | $765K | $387K | $27K | — | $802K |
| 2020 | $968K | $641K | $304K | $31K | — | $839K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $224K from 26 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$54K
- Otto and Marie Pick Foundation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- The Foster Hewitt Foundation$10K
- Lindsay Christian Reformed Church$8,413
- The Kinsmen Club of Lindsay Foundation$8,000
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$5,000
- The Bob and Vera Mark Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Canada Gives$2,500
- Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- The McLean Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,210
- ST. Paul's Church$1,168
- Trish's Wish Foundation$1,000
- The Georgina Foundation$1,000
- United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes$780
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$426
- Omemee Food Bank$353
- Bethel Evangelical Missionary Church (lindsay)$280
- United Way of Greater Toronto$202
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$99
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$374K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rose Barg (past chair); Trina Connell (treasurer); Andrew Leach (vice chair); Mike Puffer (rotary rep); Mike Puffer (secretary); Kelland Sewell (chair); Diane Allen (director); Diane Passmore (director); Kenna Mackintosh-Anderson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kawartha Lakes Food Source’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862545712RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.