Summerland Food Bank & Resource Centre Society
Charitable organization · Summerland, British Columbia · BN 713212520RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($318,167) as filed with the CRA.
Summerland Food Bank & Resource Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Summerland, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $392K in revenue and $318K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations, 7% from government. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $166K.
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 91% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $186K in 2020 to $392K in 2024.
In its own words
1. We operate a food bank and a resource centre the includes a drop-in centre computer access phone fax photocopying kitchen washroom and shower laundry and free shared office space and buisness services for 17 regional health and social service agencies to meet with their clients in summerland 2. We successfully operated the seed to feed program in 2023 & 2024 and will be continuing with the program for the 2024/25 year. 3. We solicit donations for an emergency fund that provides emergency needs for clients when other programs cannot or do not respond in time to emergency client ne…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $392K | $318K | $318K | — | — | $706K |
| 2023 | $357K | $257K | $257K | — | — | $632K |
| 2022 | $315K | $176K | $176K | — | — | $532K |
| 2021 | $405K | $182K | $182K | — | — | $403K |
| 2020 | $186K | $173K | $173K | — | — | $170K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $166K from 10 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Food Banks British Columbia$31K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$12K
- Summerland Pastoral Charge$12K
- ST. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Summerland British Columbia Canada$6,300
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$3,848
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,211
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$45
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$124K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Summerland Food Bank & Resource Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 713212520RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.