Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security
Private foundation · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 742341092RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,717,763) as filed with the CRA.
Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security is a private foundation based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $580K.
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 58% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $2M in 2024, the largest being $300K to The Gander Bay Community Action Program for Children Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The maple leaf centre for action on food security provided grants to organizations engaged in testing and expanding innovative approaches to food security as well as to those that promoted knowledge sharing and collaboration around food security in canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $2.7M | $494K | $89K | $1.9M | $8.9M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $2.9M | $608K | $82K | $2.1M | $7.1M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $338K | $82K | $1.6M | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $1.3M | $197K | $59K | $925K | $6.5M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $3.3M | $114K | $11K | $3.1M | $4.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2M to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Gander Bay Community Action Program for Children Inc.$300K
- Makeway Foundation$275K
- Fred Victor Centre$191K
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$175K
- Foodshare Toronto$150K
- Right To Food$150K
- Alexandra Community Health Centre$107K
- Rencontres-Cuisines$103K
- Prosper Canada$100K
- The Ottawa Food Bank/la Banque d'Alimentation d'Ottawa$79K
- Disability Without Poverty$75K
- L'Arche Canada$75K
- Plan Institute for Citizenship and Disability$50K
- Community Sector Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$25K
- UHN Foundation$25K
- London and Area Food Bank Inc$20K
- Niqinik Nuatsivik - Nunavut Food Bank$20K
- The Community Food Sharing Association Inc$20K
- I Can for Kids Foundation$10K
- Sound Times Support Services$10K
- Compass Point Bible Church$3,000
- Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc.$3,000
- Makeway Charitable Society$3,000
- Bethel Outreach End-Time Message Tabernacle$3,000
- Caribbean African Canadian (CAFCAN) Social Services$3,000
Received $580K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$154K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christopher Fletcher (director); Curtis Frank (director); Evan Fraser (director & vice chair of bo); Suzanne Hathaway (director); Michael McCain (director); Lynda Kuhn (director & chair of board); Jennifer Lamb (secretary); Sarah Stern (executive director); Joseph Leblanc (director); Neil Hetherington (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 742341092RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.