Potluck Cafe (2003) Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 896213402RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($782,996) as filed with the CRA.
Potluck Cafe (2003) Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $593K in revenue and $783K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 15% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $393K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $272K in 2020 to $593K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Providing subsidized nutritional meals to the sick and needy and enhancing the quality of life for persons living primarily in the impoverished downtown eastside community of vancouver. Providing persons with barriers to traditional employment job and life skills training in order to improve their quality of life. Developing food security solutions throughout the food system to increase availability providing accessibility and affordability to and choices of quality nutritious foos while creating community capacity building training and employment opportunities for hard to employ individ…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $593K | $783K | $494K | $46K | — | -$286K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $36K | — | -$95K |
| 2022 | $855K | $862K | $630K | $29K | — | $38K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $967K | — | — | $44K |
| 2020 | $272K | $273K | $115K | $41K | — | $4,369 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $393K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$221K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alex Nixon (board co-chair); Bobby Sangha (director); Liam Briggs (secretary); Liz Lougheed Green (board co-chair); Maz Artang (director); Michael Coletta (director); Nicholas Mobilio (treasurer); Tyler Steele (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Potluck Cafe (2003) Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896213402RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.