Scarborough Food Security Initiative
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 737837476RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-20. Split of total expenditures ($1,063,246) as filed with the CRA.
Scarborough Food Security Initiative is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 20, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 14% from government, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.8M.
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 81% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $591K in 2021 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Feed scarborough in 2018 started out as a small organization handing out holiday hampers during the month of december. It wasn’t until the covid-19 pandemic hit in march 2020 that feed scarborough became such a vital social service in scarborough. They’re now serving +3000 of our neighbours every week and the numbers are growing weekly. Suman roy the founder of feed scarborough quickly got together a team when other food banks were being shut down due to the pandemic – right when the demand for food assistance rose quickly with layoffs and lockdowns. Suman roy and some friends put some mon…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.1M | $1M | $12K | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $878K | $802K | $761K | $13K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $478K | $436K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $591K | $67K | $62K | — | — | $524K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.8M from 22 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$3.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$206K
- Canadahelps Canadon$206K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$69K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$65K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Right To Food$21K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$15K
- FCR Thriving Neighbourhoods Foundation$11K
- Second Harvest Canada$10K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$7,700
- Vancouver Foundation$6,750
- The Dawson Family Sharing Foundation$6,000
- Huscroft Family Charitable Trust$3,000
- Toronto District School Board$2,644
- Toronto Foundation$1,500
- Melville Presbyterian Church West Hill$1,230
- United Way of Greater Toronto$731
- West Hill United Church$471
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$235
- ST. Dunstan of Canterbury$201
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$606K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Meenu Gulati (treasurer); Christine Selvaggio (director); Clifford Gomes (chair); Tina-Hurl Priestly (director); Celecia Partap (director); Rinkee Ahmad (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Scarborough Food Security Initiative’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 737837476RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.