Rising Sun Food Drive Foundation
Public foundation · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 757565676RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($246,967) as filed with the CRA.
Rising Sun Food Drive Foundation is a public foundation based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $250K in revenue and $247K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9,193.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $500 in 2024, the largest being $500 to David McAntony Gibson Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11K in 2021 to $250K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
For all programs Rising Sun Food Drive Foundation (RSFDF) volunteer drivers transport procured food donations to local food banks and meal programs. For the Food Rescue program volunteers immediately transport frozen cooked donations from the restaurant to food banks. For other programs RSFDF volunteers sort and package donations at the processing centre before volunteer drivers deliver them. 1) Food Rescue Two days per week RSFDF procures donations of frozen cooked meals from a local restaurant. 2) Door-to-Door Food Drive On the weekend during the food drive season volunteers hand …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $250K | $247K | $1,452 | $4,029 | $240K | $37K |
| 2023 | $119K | $103K | $2,665 | $2,407 | $96K | $33K |
| 2022 | $104K | $95K | $1,181 | $1,096 | $92K | $17K |
| 2021 | $11K | $3,691 | $97 | — | $3,162 | $7,584 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500 to 17 qualified donees:
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$500
- Kamisa Charitable Foundation—
- Christ Church Scarborough—
- Joint Coalition Addressing Needs Health Promotion Services Inc.—
- Dominion Church International—
- Pilgrim Feast Tabernacles—
- Emmanuel Life Management Center—
- Miracle Arena For All Nations—
- SOSO World Ministries—
- Upper Room Christian Ministries International—
- Agincourt Community Services Association Inc.—
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church—
- Centre for Immigrant and Community Services—
- Native Child and Family Services of Toronto—
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church—
- Canadian South Asian Growth and Support Services (CSAGSS)—
- Grace Place—
Received $9,193 from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$100
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rita Rima Assaad (secretary); Courtney Fisher (chair); Siyuan Joyce Liang (treasurer); Michelle Wai Ki Lau (vice-chair); Gary Chang (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rising Sun Food Drive Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 757565676RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.