Nutrition for Learning Inc.
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 880648142RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,973,112) as filed with the CRA.
Nutrition for Learning Inc. is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 35% from government, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $820K.
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 27% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Provide nutritional food programs to schools in waterloo region
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $3M | $2.3M | $291K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.4M | $1.6M | $17K | — | $962K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.5M | $946K | $519 | — | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.2M | $829K | $1,102 | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.2M | $827K | $8,424 | — | $822K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $820K from 33 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$261K
- Canadahelps Canadon$261K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$104K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$18K
- Waterloo Education Foundation Inc.$15K
- Locking Arms Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region$6,591
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$3,750
- Bethel Evangelical Missionary Church$3,000
- Bethel Lutheran Church$2,500
- Emmanuel United Church$2,075
- Cambridge Concert Band$2,000
- Immanuel Pentecostal Church of Kitchener$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,043
- The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$896
- Blenheim Ecumenical House Church$800
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$755K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julia Klann (chair); Theresa Barrick (past chair); Gerald Foran (director); Sandra Johnston (director); David Camilleri (co vice chair); Mike Manojlovich (co vice chair); Daniel Meister (treasurer); Alan Quarry (director); Tran Thompson (director); Lisa McLean (secretary); Scott Miller (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nutrition for Learning Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 880648142RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.