The Food Bank of Waterloo Region
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 119233310RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($38,910,617) as filed with the CRA.
The Food Bank of Waterloo Region is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $37M in revenue and $38.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations. In 2024, 101 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 84 qualified donees totalling $2.5M in 2024, the largest being $989K to Wilmot Family Resource Centre Inc. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $21M in 2020 to $37M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The food bank of waterloo region (the food bank) acquires coordinates and distributes food to the community food assistance network - a system of 100+ community organizations providing food and support to those in need. These organizations include soup kitchens community and outreach centres shelters residential service providers food hamper programs and family resource centres. Founded in 1984 the food bank was the first organization of its kind in ontario to provide emergency food support to residents across the region. Since then the food bank was the first organization of its kind I…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $37M | $38.9M | $2.4M | $1.5M | $30.1M | $19.7M |
| 2023 | $9.2M | $7.2M | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | $16.3M |
| 2022 | $26.1M | $21.6M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $16.5M | $14.7M |
| 2021 | $25M | $20.3M | $1.9M | $1.3M | $16.2M | $9.4M |
| 2020 | $21M | $16.7M | $1.3M | $1.3M | $12.6M | $4.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.5M to 84 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Wilmot Family Resource Centre Inc$989K
- House of Friendship$989K
- Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank Inc.$350K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$70K
- K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed$44K
- Woolwich Community Services$29K
- City of Kitchener—
- Palmerston: James Street United Church—
- Lutherwood—
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada—
- Wilfrid Laurier University—
- Wellesley Mennonite Church—
- Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc.—
- Trinity Anglican Church—
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario—
- Helping Hand Food Bank—
- Anishnabeg Outreach Employment and Training Inc.—
- House of Friendship—
- Vincent de Paul-Conseil national du Canada Society of Saint-Vincent de Paul-National council of Canada—
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario—
- The Salvation Army Community & Family Services—
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada—
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada—
- North Huron Community Foodshare—
- Indwell Community Homes—
Received $4M from 101 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$1.3M
- Speroway$676K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$433K
- Canadahelps Canadon$257K
- Canadahelps Canadon$257K
- Abundance Canada$196K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$153K
- The Balsillie Family Foundation$100K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$96K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$89K
- Trinity United Church$50K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$47K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$41K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$33K
- GHD Foundation (canada)$29K
- The Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundation$20K
- Astley Family Foundation$20K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$18K
- The First Christian Reformed Church of Kitchener Inc.$16K
- Muslim Society of Waterloo and Wellington Counties$15K
- The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation$15K
- ST. James Rosemount United Church$12K
- The Fregin Family Foundation$12K
- Canada Gives$12K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Terry Melo (director); Karen Armstrong (vice chair); Glen Polson (director); David Brenneman (chair); Alison De Muy (director); Laura Lawlor (director); Julia Malott (director); Don Dychuck (treasurer); Kevin Dopko (director); Julie Millard (director); Pejman Salehl (director); Michael verhoeve (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Food Bank of Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119233310RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.