Kinvia
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 118830983RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,512,962) as filed with the CRA.
Kinvia is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8M in revenue and $9.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from donations, 6% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 72 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 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 43 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $739K in 2024, the largest being $75K to Elsipogtog First Nation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Kinvia previously known as Canadian Feed The Children is an international non-governmental organization supporting children youth and their communities in overcoming systemic barriers to their rights to nutritious and culturally appropriate food since 1986. The organization works with local partners internationally and with Indigenous communities across Canada to impact all areas of nourishment at all stages of their lives including income generation education gender equality racial justice and climate impacts. These include: 1) Food sovereignty initiatives in partnership with Indige…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8M | $9.5M | $6.5M | $1.3M | $739K | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $9.7M | $9.1M | $5.9M | $1.4M | $700K | $3.9M |
| 2022 | $8M | $8.8M | $5.8M | $1.3M | $696K | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $9M | $7.3M | $4.1M | $1.5M | $783K | $3.8M |
| 2020 | $7.8M | $6.6M | $3.4M | $1.7M | $542K | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $739K to 17 qualified donees:
- Elsipogtog First Nation$75K
- Eel Ground$73K
- Chippewas of Nawash First Nation/Neyasshinigmiling$70K
- Incorporated Hamlet of Tulita$65K
- Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation$63K
- Liidlii Kue First Nation$60K
- Sambaa K'e First Nation$45K
- Sayisi Dene First Nation/Tadoule Lake$43K
- Boys & Girls Club of Thompson Inc.$38K
- Tobique$35K
- Stein Valley Nlakapamux School Society$30K
- Muskeg Lake Cree Nation #102$30K
- Esgenoopetitj First Nation$30K
- Atikameg First Nations school$27K
- Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation/Biigtigong Nishnaabeg$22K
- Red Rock Indian Band$20K
- Montreal Lake Cree Nation$12K
Received $1.2M from 72 charities:
- The McCain Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$143K
- Canadahelps Canadon$143K
- The Sprott Foundation$125K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$102K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$71K
- The PepsiCo Canada Foundation$60K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$53K
- Longhedge Foundation$50K
- BenefAction Foundation$41K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$30K
- The Sprott Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$29K
- The Windsor Foundation$25K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$21K
- Holdbest Foundation$20K
- The John and Jeanne Eyking Family Foundation$18K
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fund$10K
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Sapna Family Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$9,603
- Aqueduct Foundation$8,500
- Link Charity Canada Inc$5,000
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$5,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions43
- Total compensation, all staff$3.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marion MacKenzie (chair); Clare Ashbee (board member); Reema Ibrahim (board member); Craig Buckley (board member); Elizabeth Dyke (board member); Tony Malfara (vice chair and treasurer); Stephanie Wiafe (board member); Nadia Humayun (board member); Lea Nicholas-MacKenzie (board member); Ayo Makanjuola (board member); Zahra Fatima Taseer (board member); Raj Sharda (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kinvia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118830983RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.