Ontario Association of Food Banks
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 885260968RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($26,578,932) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Association of Food Banks is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $26.4M in revenue and $26.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 37 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 140 qualified donees totalling $17.6M in 2024, the largest being $3.4M to Daily Bread Food Bank. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $15.4M in 2020 to $26.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The association is a membership organization of food bank throughout ontario with a mandate to assist in meeting the immediate food needs of food bank recipients and to work towards long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26.4M | $26.6M | $5.4M | — | $20.8M | $2M |
| 2023 | $22.1M | $21.8M | $3.7M | — | $17.6M | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $25.8M | $25.2M | $4M | — | $20.7M | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $76M | $75.9M | $31.2M | — | $58.4M | $591K |
| 2020 | $15.4M | $15.3M | $1.3M | — | $13.9M | $516K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17.6M to 140 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$3.4M
- Ottawa Food Bank$1.7M
- Hamilton Food Share$882K
- Windsor - UHC - Hub of Opportunities$847K
- London Food Bank$821K
- Regional Food Distribution Association$766K
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region$706K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$623K
- Food Banks Mississauga$587K
- The Food Bank of York Region$555K
- Feed the Need in Durham$472K
- Banque d'ailments Sudbury Food Bank$378K
- Cochrane Regional Food Bank$310K
- Community Care St.00 Catharines & Thorold$224K
- Kawartha Food Share$218K
- Partners In Mission Food Bank$206K
- Barrie Food Bank$182K
- Project Share$167K
- Knights Table$162K
- The Agape Centre$149K
- Cambridge Food Bank$136K
- Community Resource Service - Brantford Food Bank$132K
- Timmins Food Bank$128K
- Burlington Food Bank$126K
- Kapuskasing Food Bank$123K
Received $1.4M from 37 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$473K
- Canadahelps Canadon$223K
- Canadahelps Canadon$223K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$190K
- Speroway$58K
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$40K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$32K
- Healthier Tomorrows Individual Giving Program$32K
- The Walker Family Foundation$15K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$9,290
- Aqueduct Foundation$9,000
- Food Banks Mississauga$8,860
- BenefAction Foundation$5,620
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$5,000
- Morley And Rita Cohen Foundation /Fondation Morley Et Rita Cohen$5,000
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,947
- Banque d'Aliments Sudbury Food Bank$3,261
- Canada Gives$3,250
- R&M Lang Foundation$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,616
- The Grenadier Foundation$2,500
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 positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ryan Noble (chair); Peter Oram (secretary); Meghan Nicholls (director); Robin Bailey (director); Neil Hetherington (director); Wayne Vanderwees (director); Audrie Bouwmeester (director); Christine Clark Lafleur (director); Maureen Ford (director); Rim Khazall (director); Steve Bhatti (treasurer); Sean McFarling (director); Dan Irwin (director); Spooner-Bourgogne Natalie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Association of Food Banks’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885260968RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.