The Gift of Giving Back
Charitable organization · Burlington, Ontario · BN 807691126RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($103,023) as filed with the CRA.
The Gift of Giving Back is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $106K in revenue and $103K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $85K in 2024, the largest being $17K to Food for Life Canada Charitable Corporation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $191K in 2020 to $106K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The gift of giving back community food drive is the largest food drive of its kind in canada supporting six member agencies in the halton region. We have recently expanded to include two additional cities welcoming oakville and brampton their partners and their beneficiaries. The annual initiative supports educates and empowers thousands of young athletes and high school students to give back to their communities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $106K | $103K | $12K | — | $85K | $94K |
| 2023 | $78K | $84K | $36K | — | $48K | $91K |
| 2022 | $88K | $100K | $16K | — | $80K | $97K |
| 2021 | $36K | $71K | $61K | — | — | $109K |
| 2020 | $191K | $153K | $88K | $59K | — | $145K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $85K to 10 qualified donees:
- Food for Life Canada Charitable Corporation$17K
- Burlington Food Bank$17K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$12K
- Kerr Street Community Services$11K
- Compassion Society of Halton$11K
- Halton Women's Place$7,863
- Burlington Rotary Community Hospice Inc.$2,975
- Reach Out Centre for Kids$2,083
- Halton Catholic Children's Education Foundation$2,082
- Halton Learning Foundation$2,082
Received $13K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cheryl Farquharson (director/treasurer); Dennis Noonan (director); Jean Longfield (director/president/secretary); John Tait (director/vp); Rick Dale (director); John Crick (director); Tania Lee (director); Deborah Hawke-Wende (director of volunteers).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Gift of Giving Back’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 807691126RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.