Lake Country Food Assistance Society
Charitable organization · Lake Country, British Columbia · BN 119002467RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,013,611) as filed with the CRA.
Lake Country Food Assistance Society is a charitable organization based in Lake Country, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $711K.
Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $614K in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024.
In its own words
We operate as a non-profit food bank that provides food and supplies to the needy residents of lake country bc. We have a food recovery program that takes surplus food from suppliers and redistributes to other charities. All food products unusable for human consumptions is given to local farms for animal feed.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3M | — | $1,589 | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $3.4M | — | — | — | $741K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | — | $733K |
| 2021 | $391K | $139K | — | — | — | $661K |
| 2020 | $614K | $1.7M | — | — | — | $658K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $711K from 15 charities:
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$340K
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$120K
- Food Banks British Columbia$102K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Gloria DI Dio Foundation$8,000
- Wood Lake Pastoral Charge$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,451
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,110
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$596
- Wood Lake Pastoral Charge$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$182K
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 Lake Country Food Assistance Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119002467RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.