Nelson Community Food Centre Society
Charitable organization · Nelson, British Columbia · BN 828762344RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($572,413) as filed with the CRA.
Nelson Community Food Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Nelson, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $527K in revenue and $572K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 17% from government, 27% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $272K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The Nelson Community Food Centre operated the following programs from Nov 1 2023 to October 31 2024: The Good Food Bank The Gardens. No-Cook Program and Food Skills Classes. Our Good Food Bank had 12 156 bags of groceries distributed through the program. Our two garden sites located at Selkirk College's SilverKing Campus and our raised garden beds at 602 Silica St. produced 840 pounds of fresh produce to be distributed through our programs. The organization hosted two 8 week Food Skills series throughout the Spring and Fall focusing on cooking meals from around the world and an into to b…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $527K | $572K | $535K | $1,970 | — | $281K |
| 2023 | $628K | $584K | $558K | $6,280 | — | $327K |
| 2022 | $605K | $583K | $476K | $44K | $0 | $238K |
| 2021 | $508K | $592K | $379K | $58K | $0 | $1 |
| 2020 | $566K | $509K | $333K | $58K | $0 | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $272K from 16 charities:
- Right To Food$127K
- United Way British Columbia$57K
- Osprey Community Foundation$35K
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,760
- Nelson United Church$4,600
- Food Banks British Columbia$3,914
- Mazon Canada$3,600
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,084
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,486
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,470
- Nelson Circle Foundation Trustee M D Berg$500
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$320
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$19
- Nelson Circle Foundation Trustee M D Berg—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$186K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Kramar (treasurer); Sarah Dobell (secretary); Stephanie Myers (director); Tina Lirette (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nelson Community Food Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828762344RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.