The Food Bank of York Region
Charitable organization · Concord, Ontario · BN 849539473RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,182,063) as filed with the CRA.
The Food Bank of York Region is a charitable organization based in Concord, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11.2M in revenue and $11.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $916K.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $5.1M in 2024, the largest being $5.1M to See supplementary list uploaded with return. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The collection of food for and distribution of food to food banks.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.2M | $11.2M | $1.8M | — | $9.2M | $936K |
| 2023 | $10.9M | $10.8M | $10.6M | — | — | $873K |
| 2022 | $7.9M | $7.7M | $7.6M | — | — | $709K |
| 2021 | $8.7M | $8.7M | $8.5M | — | — | $589K |
| 2020 | $10.4M | $10M | $9.8M | — | — | $492K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.1M to 1 qualified donee:
- See supplementary list uploaded with return$5.1M
Received $916K from 28 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$202K
- Canadahelps Canadon$138K
- Canadahelps Canadon$138K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$130K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$75K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$30K
- Mika Charitable Foundation$25K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$24K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$20K
- The Dunin Foundation$20K
- Canada Gives$18K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$11K
- The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$10K
- The Hunt Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- Mazon Canada$9,600
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$7,500
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$5,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$4,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$3,000
- The Allstate Foundation of Canada$3,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,976
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$633K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruno Ierullo (secretary); Manish Agarwal (treasurer); Derek Edwards (board chair); Horace Walks (directoer); Sandra Zoratti (director); Srinka Walia (director); Naomi Ierullo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Food Bank of York Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 849539473RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.