North York Harvest Food Bank
Charitable organization · York, Ontario · BN 119062495RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,137,839) as filed with the CRA.
North York Harvest Food Bank is a charitable organization based in York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $7.6M in revenue and $7.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 15% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 84 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
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 38% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.3M in 2020 to $7.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
To relieve poverty by operating a food bank for individuals or families who are poor of low income or in need. To relieve poverty by soliciting collecting storing processing distributing and disposing of or otherwise dealing in food or food-related product items operating a food distribution system and collaborating with organizations engaged in hunger relief to assist persons in need. To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.6M | $7.1M | $5.9M | $868K | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $5.6M | $4.5M | $338K | $100K | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $5.4M | $4.9M | $4.5M | $610K | $98K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $4.1M | $3.4M | $493K | $64K | $892K |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $4.1M | $3.5M | $473K | $92K | $454K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.4M from 84 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$283K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$260K
- Canadahelps Canadon$227K
- Canadahelps Canadon$227K
- The Schulich Foundation$200K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$184K
- Community Foundations of Canada$98K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$94K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$86K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$66K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$62K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$50K
- The Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Toronto$50K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$46K
- Toronto Foundation$38K
- Tippet Foundation$25K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$20K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$18K
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$17K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$16K
- William Birchall Foundation$15K
- SGNC Foundation$10K
- North York (chinese) Baptist Church$10K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$3.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christine Farrugia (chair); Kelly Jackson (director); John Lee (treasurer); Vincent Robert (director); Derrick LI (secretary); Diane Enhorning (director); Katherine Festeryga (director); Kareen Proudian (director); Sheila Chau (director); Richard Liu (director); Jill McDowell (director); Barbara Emanuel (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from North York Harvest Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119062495RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.