Sooke Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Sooke, British Columbia · BN 118870559RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($562,739) as filed with the CRA.
Sooke Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Sooke, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $561K in revenue and $563K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations, 9% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $416K.
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 71% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $322K in 2020 to $561K in 2024.
In its own words
Provide food hampers to needy and low income residents of sooke jordon river port renfew and surrounding rual areas. School breakfast program. Christmas food and toy hampers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $561K | $563K | $535K | — | — | $417K |
| 2023 | $509K | $521K | — | — | — | $466K |
| 2022 | $360K | $363K | $219K | — | $219K | $478K |
| 2021 | $311K | $312K | $236K | — | $236K | $295K |
| 2020 | $322K | $323K | $276K | — | $276K | $196K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $416K from 16 charities:
- Food Banks British Columbia$183K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation$20K
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$17K
- Lighthouse Church PAOC$9,000
- C-Fax Santa's Anonymous Society$7,500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$3,199
- The Western Communities Foundation$2,455
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$621
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$500
- First West Foundation$319
- Sooke Folk Music Society$290
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$145
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sooke Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118870559RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.