The Stop Community Food Centre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119192763RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,081,489) as filed with the CRA.
The Stop Community Food Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $5.5M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 12% from government, 49% from other charities. In 2024, 77 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.5M.
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 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 44 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $49K in 2024, the largest being $49K to Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Stop provides emergency food services and community building programs including drop-in meals food bank perinatal supports peer advocacy tax clinic good food market community kitchen urban agriculture educational and demonstration programs and year-round farmer's market.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $5.1M | $3.9M | $605K | $49K | $3M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $4.9M | $3.6M | $667K | $43K | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $5.2M | $5.2M | $3.7M | $772K | $74K | $2M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $4.4M | $3.3M | $563K | $50K | $2M |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $4.1M | $3M | $618K | $44K | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $49K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2.5M from 77 charities:
- The Sprott Foundation$600K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$464K
- Arrell Family Foundation$200K
- Canadahelps Canadon$104K
- Canadahelps Canadon$104K
- Toronto Foundation$84K
- The Samuel Family Foundation$75K
- The Newlands Family Foundation$75K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$59K
- The Auxilium Foundation$50K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$50K
- BenefAction Foundation$47K
- The Waterbury Foundation$40K
- Ventum Donor-Advised Foundation$26K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$25K
- J. Armand Bombardier Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$25K
- The Atkinson Martin Family Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$24K
- Inasmuch$23K
- The Alastair and Jennifer Murray Foundation$20K
- The Alastair and Jennifer Murray Foundation$20K
- Tippet Foundation$20K
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions44
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stacy McLean (secretary); Koel Loyer (director); Chris Valentine (president); Charles Yu (director); Sabina Vohra-Miller (director); Steve Thuringer (director); Bronwyn Underhill (director); Carmen Martinez (director); Jessica McQuoid (director); Kevin Yu (director); Monty Laskin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Stop Community Food Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119192763RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.