Mary's Meals Canada
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 845360536RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,464,790) as filed with the CRA.
Mary's Meals Canada is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $376K.
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 69% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $841K in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Mary's meals canada provides meals to impoverished children in india haiti ecuador and countries in africa.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $2.3M | $73K | — | $68K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $1.8M | $46K | — | $37K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $60K | — | $107K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $29K | — | $27K |
| 2020 | $841K | $814K | $775K | $7,256 | — | $133K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $376K from 36 charities:
- Celtic Cross Charitable Foundation Trust$80K
- The Great Big Red Barn Foundation$55K
- Sharelife$33K
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$30K
- Lamb Foundation$25K
- Lamb Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- The Calgary Foundation$15K
- The Evergreen Catholic Separate School Division$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,442
- Bitelli Family Foundation$7,000
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fund$7,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$5,000
- The Full Gospel Church of Calgary$4,137
- Toronto Council Knights of Columbus 1388 Charitable Welfare Trust$3,170
- ATCO Electric Epic$3,120
- Vancity Community Foundation$3,000
- ST Theresa's Church$2,886
- ST Paul Education Regional DIV No 1$2,806
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,440
- ST. Joseph Council No. 8715 Charitable Welfare Trust$2,100
- Conam Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,733
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$264K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheri McConnell (executive director); Ciaran McGeown (board chair); Andrew Wilson (secretary & treasurer); Maria Dalcin (director); David Ward (director); Clay Imoo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mary's Meals Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 845360536RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.