Loving Spoonful Kingston
Publicly funded institution · Kingston, Ontario · BN 821665312RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($230,601) as filed with the CRA.
Loving Spoonful Kingston is a charitable organization based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $186K in revenue and $231K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 51% from government, 30% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $238K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $931K in 2020 to $186K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Loving spoonful is addressing food security through school and community gardens community kitchen programs for low-income individuals and families and delivery of surplus fresh foods to shelters meal programs and locations where people can access the fresh produce without stigma. Over 1 000 children learned through loving spoonful's school gardens in 2018 in the grow project.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $186K | $231K | $203K | $17K | — | $466K |
| 2023 | $1M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $20K | — | $510K |
| 2022 | $951K | $897K | $801K | $18K | — | $578K |
| 2021 | $639K | $576K | $523K | $9,581 | — | $523K |
| 2020 | $931K | $638K | $542K | $31K | — | $461K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $238K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$70K
- C.B. Powell Foundation$30K
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$25K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$25K
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,267
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$605
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$433
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$230
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$34
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$158K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Rachel Askett (director); Carey Bidtnes (director); James Devonshire (director); Cheri Dobbs (director); Anne Finlay (secretary); Fairleigh Seaton (director); Margaret Shepherd (chair); Brian Smith (vice-chair); Jackie Stoneman (director); Catherine Styles (past chair); Lisa Wittur (treasurer).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Loving Spoonful Kingston’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821665312RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.