The Fort Saskatchewan Food Gatherers Society
Charitable organization · Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta · BN 108082413RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,092,313) as filed with the CRA.
The Fort Saskatchewan Food Gatherers Society is a charitable organization based in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $353K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $8,458 in 2024, the largest being $5,046 to The Board of Trustees of Elk Island Public Schools. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The society operates a food bank that is staffed by 130 dedicated volunteers under the direction of an executive director. The society’s purpose is to provide short term supplemental food assistance addressing the food insecurity needs of our clients. People can self refer or they are referred from social services city of fort saskatchewan community services churches and schools. We exist to provide food support in times of emergency and stress. The food bank is open five days a week with tuesdays and thursdays as hamper days. Clients may pick up a hamper every 3 weeks after completing reg…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $25K | $8,458 | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $2M | $25K | $8,794 | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $720K | $131K | $5,080 | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1M | $934K | $14K | $8,384 | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $806K | $763K | $1,944 | $8,423 | $891K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8,458 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $353K from 12 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$80K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,199
- Fort Saskatchewan Church of the Nazarene$1,000
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$1,000
- Fort Saskatchewan Pentecostal Assembly$600
- United Way of Calgary and Area$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$172K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dorothy Lawerence (president); Allan Wesley (treasurer); Rachelle Sutherland (secretary); Bedros Tutunciyan (director); Amy Fluker (director); Amanda Bell (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Fort Saskatchewan Food Gatherers Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108082413RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.