Mountain View Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Olds, Alberta · BN 141088260RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,144,605) as filed with the CRA.
Mountain View Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Olds, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $156K.
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 87% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $698K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
'the mountain view food bank society is an organization of caring people who assist citizens of the mountain view county requiring emergency food needs' the mountain view food bank society receives donations of food and money from individuals businesses churches schools service clubs and other groups; and uses the donations to provide food to county of mountain view applicants in need of assistance. The mountain view food bank operates solely with the use of volunteers. There are over 50 regular volunteers including a working board of directors that provide over 15 000 volunteer hours. Th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $5,044 | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.5M | $5,044 | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $6,000 | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $974K | $792K | $754K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $698K | $444K | $409K | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $156K from 14 charities:
- Red Deer Food Bank Society$105K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$16K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,512
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,678
- Didsbury Pastoral Charge Knox United Church$5,000
- Bergthal Mennonite Church$2,500
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,080
- East Olds Baptist Church$1,500
- The Cremona and District Community Chest$1,043
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$550
- St.Agnes Catholic Parish$460
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$275
- United Way of Calgary and Area$180
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tayva Graham (president); Sylvia Harder (director); Penny Coyne (treasurer); Doug Berggren (secretary); Mary Rindal (director); Patricia Graham (director); Gayle Meier (director); Greg Compton (director); James Thomson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mountain View Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 141088260RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.