Nourish Leadership
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 794405209RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,272,121) as filed with the CRA.
Nourish Leadership is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $480K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $241K in 2024, the largest being $190K to Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociauxdu Centre-Sud-de-L'Île-de-Montréal. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $540K in 2022 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Nourish programs support leadership by the health care sector to adopt practices that use the power of food to build health for people and the planet. The organization hosts action learning programs to engage hospitals and long-term care facilities to support indigenous foodways and shift to more climate-friendly menus that are plant-rich sustainably sourced culturally mindful and reduce carbon. It runs a national anchor cohort to surface innovation and to develop leadership and collaboration on preventative health through food. Mentorship training and webinars to the seven teams currently …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $719K | $94K | $241K | $163K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $614K | $78K | $320K | $63K |
| 2022 | $540K | $539K | $305K | $40K | — | $826 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $241K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $480K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$611K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alison Forestell (chair); Jennifer Verma (treasurer); Laura Salmon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nourish Leadership’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 794405209RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.