Parkdale Community Food Bank
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 812016210RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,035,466) as filed with the CRA.
Parkdale Community Food Bank is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
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 75% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $163K in 2020 to $3.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The organization is a non-profit grass roots food bank that provides better freefood to individuals and families in the parkdale community of toronto ontario. The organization depends on donations from individuals and businesses utilizing a shopping system to maximize selection and respect for the dietary needs of each individual. The organization advocates for the elimination of poverty and food shortages within it's community by helping individuals and families economically reintegrate into the community. The organization's funding (both cash and in-kind donations) is wholly derived from I…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $580K | $386K | — | $50K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $970K | $215K | $161K | — | — | $929K |
| 2020 | $163K | $135K | $84K | $2,592 | — | $174K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.7M from 30 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$1.6M
- United Way of Greater Toronto$260K
- Canadahelps Canadon$191K
- Canadahelps Canadon$191K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$150K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$58K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$50K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$22K
- The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$13K
- Right To Food$10K
- The Hope Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Newall Family Foundation$6,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,600
- Redpoll Foundation$5,000
- Tippet Foundation$5,000
- The K.M. Edwards Family Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$4,833
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$4,318
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,000
- Mazon Canada$4,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,280
- Forest Hill Lions Club$2,000
- Canada Gives$1,500
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$365K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Avi Cheema (board member); Jagtaran Singh (board member); Laurie Drake (board member); Gurbeen Bhasin (board member); Alexandra Cote (board member); Catherine Nicholls (treasurer); Miles Kenyon (board member); Jane Laughton (board member); Liza Kobrinsky (director); Sherri Hasmatali (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Parkdale Community Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 812016210RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.