Second Harvest Canada
Charitable organization · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 133865477RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($382,248,118) as filed with the CRA.
Second Harvest Canada is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $382.9M in revenue and $382.2M in expenditures.
In 2024, 119 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8.1M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 144 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $70K in 2024, the largest being $10K to YMCA of Greater Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $111.3M in 2020 to $382.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Second harvest is canada's largest food rescue organization and a global thought leader on perishable food recovery. Operating at the intersection of hunger relief and environmental protection second harvest rescues perishable nutrient-dense surplus food at risk of going to waste from food companies. This fresh healthy food is then re-distributed to a broad network of social service organizations in every province and territory across canada including community meal programs food banks student nutrition programs shelters centres for people suffering from mental health and addiction iss…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $382.9M | $382.2M | $380.9M | $568K | $70K | $28.3M |
| 2023 | $284M | $285.3M | $279.3M | $3.6M | $310K | $28.5M |
| 2022 | $230.5M | $230M | $208.1M | $3.6M | $15.7M | $28.5M |
| 2021 | $130.3M | $131.2M | $121.5M | $2.1M | $5.9M | $27.5M |
| 2020 | $111.3M | $92.1M | $82.3M | $1.8M | $6.2M | $17.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $70K to 7 qualified donees:
Received $8.1M from 119 charities:
- The Nikita Foundation$2M
- The Slaight Family Foundation$1M
- The Sprott Foundation$800K
- Arrell Family Foundation$500K
- Speroway$376K
- Canadahelps Canadon$279K
- Canadahelps Canadon$279K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$193K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$189K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$150K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$150K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$148K
- Food Banks Mississauga$146K
- Toronto Foundation$133K
- The Nissan Canada Foundation /la Fondation Nissan Canada$125K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$100K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$100K
- BenefAction Foundation$80K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$75K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$75K
- The Bickle-Wilder Foundation$68K
- The Bedolfe Foundation$65K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$65K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$50K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions144
- Total compensation, all staff$8.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ray Chaaya (director); Harinder Dhillon (director); Kevin Groh (director); Jeff Hauswirth (past chair); Janice Lam (director); Greg Laurin (director); Katherine Macmillan (director); Lori Nikkel (chief executive officer); Satish Rai (treasurer); Tamara Ramsey (director); Richard Talbot (vice chair); Karen White-Boswell (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Second Harvest Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133865477RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.