Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern Ontario
Charitable organization · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 809124613RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,634,963) as filed with the CRA.
Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern Ontario is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations, 16% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.9M in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To secure and distribute emergency food to meet the needs in northwestern ontario
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | — | $853K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.9M | — | — | — | $750K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.7M | — | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $1.7M | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $4.8M | — | — | $687K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 24 charities:
- The SJ Foundation$300K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$200K
- Shaw Family Foundation$200K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$197K
- Canadahelps Canadon$195K
- Canadahelps Canadon$195K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$54K
- John Andrews Foundation$44K
- United Way of Thunder Bay$33K
- Honda Canada Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Christian Science Society Thunder Bay Ontario Canada$20K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$8,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- The Handicapped Action Group Incorporated$2,000
- Central National Gottesman Canada Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$783
- United Way of Greater Toronto$772
- Hilldale Lutheran Church$445
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$200
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$74
- First-Wesley United Church$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$711K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
June Gaw (chair); Eileen Pelletier (director); Volker Kromm (executive director); Barry Radtke (director); Joan Stevens (director); Dianne Matson (director); Allen Huckabay (director); Fred Reckman (director); Sheldon Hannah (director); Tamara Sheedy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 809124613RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.