Northumberland County Foodbanks
Charitable organization · Cobourg, Ontario · BN 119061844RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,762,255) as filed with the CRA.
Northumberland County Foodbanks is a charitable organization based in Cobourg, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $838K.
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 93% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $731K in 2020 to $3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $2.8M | $2.7M | $840 | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.6M | $2.5M | $2,027 | $3,551 | $1M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1,654 | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $2,612 | — | $986K |
| 2020 | $731K | $252K | $158K | $3,204 | — | $863K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $838K from 29 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$252K
- Canadahelps Canadon$212K
- Canadahelps Canadon$212K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$50K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- Hickey Family Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$6,750
- Church of ST John the Evangelist$6,020
- Grace Christian Reformed Church of Cobourg$5,135
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$3,500
- Link Charity Canada Inc$2,500
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- New Hope United Church$2,500
- Canada Gives$2,400
- The Wiseman Hamilton Family Foundation$2,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$1,500
- Calvary Baptist Church Cobourg$1,175
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Eddystone Baptist Church$800
- Christ the Servant Catholic Church$500
- Church on the Hill$470
- Survivor-Thrivers-Breast Cancer Survivors Society$450
- United Way of Greater Toronto$356
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$202K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeff Sheils (vice chair); Dick Kauling (chair); Brent Morrill (director); Danielle Keir (treasurer); Harry Meester (secretary); Cynthia Warn (director); Valerie White (director); John Kelly (treasurer); Elizabeth Edwards (director); Shauna Elliott (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northumberland County Foodbanks’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119061844RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.