The Local Community Food Centre
Charitable organization · Stratford, Ontario · BN 815541925RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,088,939) as filed with the CRA.
The Local Community Food Centre is a charitable organization based in Stratford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $721K.
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 46% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The organization provides various programs training and support to low-income families to gain access to healthy food.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $941K | $24K | — | $71K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1M | $898K | $35K | — | $40K |
| 2022 | $966K | $1M | $938K | $18K | — | $410 |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1M | $938K | $9,362 | — | $77K |
| 2020 | $858K | $864K | $765K | $22K | — | -$9,608 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $721K from 19 charities:
- Right To Food$284K
- United Way of Perth-Huron$88K
- Canadahelps Canadon$82K
- Canadahelps Canadon$82K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$70K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$29K
- The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation$26K
- Right To Food$25K
- Right To Food$14K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Goodwill Industries Ontario Great Lakes$1,562
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation$1,500
- Knox Presbyterian Church$1,000
- Kilroy Council No. 1431 Charitable Welfare Trust$500
- Flavelle Family Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$178
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$511K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Katelyn Culliton (chair finance); Tim Elliot (director); Ann Watt (chair of governance committee); Katie Deblock Boersma (chair); Brent Shackleton (chair fund ambassador); Karen Gillet (director); Kiersten Vandrunen (secretary); Jane Deblock (director); Geoff Krauter (director); Sharlene Mattucci (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Local Community Food Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815541925RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.