Parkland Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Spruce Grove, Alberta · BN 128510484RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,066,904) as filed with the CRA.
Parkland Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Spruce Grove, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $898K.
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 30% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Distributing food to needy families and individuals in the parkland region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $4.1M | $3.2M | $26K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.2M | $2.4M | $28K | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.2M | $2.6M | $17K | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $9,638 | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $2.6M | $2.3M | $3,034 | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $898K from 25 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$245K
- Canadahelps Canadon$245K
- ST Andrews' United Church$149K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$60K
- Zender Family Foundation$50K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$28K
- The Leder Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$25K
- The Chalmers Family Foundation$13K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,464
- The Allstate Foundation of Canada$2,000
- New Life Community Church of Stony Plain$1,500
- Stony Plain & District Crime Prevention Association$1,500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,321
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,120
- Parkland Baptist Church$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- Stony Plain Alliance Church$846
- Congregational Christian Fellowship Church of Spruce Grove$600
- St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church of Stony Plain Alberta$555
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$502
- AMA Community Foundation$400
- The Western Communities Foundation$398
- ST Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church$265
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$558K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joe Acker (director); Patrick Boily (director); Taylor Collins (director); Becky Giberson (secretary); Noreen Lang-Bryant (chair); Edward (ed) McLean (director); Steve Owens (director); Rosetta Taylor (director); Ruby Wallis (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Parkland Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128510484RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.