The Gathering Place North Bay's Community Soup Kitchen
Charitable organization · North Bay, Ontario · BN 889414504RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,256,693) as filed with the CRA.
The Gathering Place North Bay's Community Soup Kitchen is a charitable organization based in North Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $776K in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 42% from government, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $246K.
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 18% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Operation of a community soup kitchen. Serves breakfast and lunch 5 days per week as well as evening meals 3 days per week at no charge to those in need. Volunteers work with paid staff to prepare and serve food perform facility maintenance and fundraising. Operation of garden for use in soup kitchen. After year-end starting september 3 2024 the meals served were redeuced to 1 meal per day. As of january 14 2025 the operation of the garden was given back to the city
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $776K | $1.3M | $823K | — | — | -$673K |
| 2023 | $845K | $999K | $799K | — | — | -$196K |
| 2022 | $681K | $713K | $143K | $3,708 | — | -$44K |
| 2021 | $748K | $725K | $579K | $982 | — | -$13K |
| 2020 | $550K | $512K | $408K | $903 | — | $93K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $246K from 22 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$60K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$31K
- Rebuilt Resources Skills Development Inc$20K
- Calvin Presbyterian Church$15K
- United Way Centraide North East Ontario / Nord-est de l'Ontario$12K
- The Rotary Club of North Bay Ontario Canada Inc.$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,341
- The Sisters of ST Joseph of Sault Ste Marie$6,500
- The Stockfish Family Foundation$4,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,320
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,260
- Parish of Queen of Peace- CFB$2,000
- Calvary Pentecostal Temple$1,645
- North Bay Church of Christ$1,500
- Christ Church Anglican$1,186
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,114
- Community of Christ North Bay Congregation$500
- Hope Awaits Ministries$250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$116
- Redpoll Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$749K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Ellison (director); Peter Gregory (chair); Monica Habel (secretary); Carolle Hamilton (director); Gina King (vice chair); Judy Szumik (director); Scott Tod (past chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Gathering Place North Bay's Community Soup Kitchen’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889414504RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.