Nutrition Blocs
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 736669516RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-28. Split of total expenditures ($176,687) as filed with the CRA.
Nutrition Blocs is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 28, 2024, it reported $151K in revenue and $177K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $43K.
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 15% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2022 to $151K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The food for thought net-café is an organization whose mission is to relieve poverty by providing food and meals and to provide access to an internet café to poor low-income or needy individuals or families and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the achievement of the aformentioned charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $151K | $177K | $105K | — | — | $108K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $134K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.5M | $1.1M | — | — | $407K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $43K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$23K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sylvain De Margerie (president); Doris De Margerie (director); Bruno Lepine (secretary + treasurer); Fabien Cimankinda Kalala (director); Joe Thottungal (director - culinary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nutrition Blocs’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 736669516RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.