Serving Soup to the Hungry
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 132001553RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($264,923) as filed with the CRA.
Serving Soup to the Hungry is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $206K in revenue and $265K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from donations. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $112K.
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 83% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The 9-10 club operates a take out meal service five days a week from monday to friday from 8:00 am to 10:00 am. Operations are from the basement of st.andrew's cathedral in downtown victoria bc and has been for the last 40 years. All workers are volunteers. Approxiamtely 100 to 200 meals are handed out. The meals consist of tea coffee water a hard boiled egg a hearty bowl of soup a meat sandwich fresh fruit sweets ;and excess bread and buns.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $206K | $265K | $261K | — | — | $744K |
| 2023 | $306K | $251K | $247K | — | — | $804K |
| 2022 | $322K | $189K | $185K | — | — | $749K |
| 2021 | $242K | $149K | $146K | — | — | $616K |
| 2020 | $192K | $101K | $99K | — | — | $523K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $112K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation$25K
- The Victoria Foundation$18K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$2,752
- Saint John Henry Newman Catholic Church$2,670
- The Bishop of Victoria$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$400
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$346
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$340
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Teri Hustins (director); Sheily Connelly (operations coordinato); Gordon Macneil (president); Simon Dicastri (director); Stef Hartwig (director); Janina Nawrocki (director); Gerald Poulton (dirctor); Deborah Shera (director); Julia Saurazas (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Serving Soup to the Hungry’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132001553RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.