Vancouver Food Runners Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 769422676RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($419,384) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Food Runners Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $490K in revenue and $419K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations, 6% from government. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $494K.
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 66% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $200K in 2021 to $490K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. Oue aim is to prevent perfectly good food from entering the waste stream - where it will negatively harm our enviroment - and instead redirect it to nonprofits in vancouver that work with the most vulnerable members of our community. We belive good food belong to people not landfills!
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $490K | $419K | $394K | — | — | $275K |
| 2023 | $366K | $315K | $301K | — | — | $205K |
| 2022 | $314K | $277K | $263K | — | — | $154K |
| 2021 | $200K | $146K | $146K | — | — | $117K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $494K from 34 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$63K
- Canadahelps Canadon$63K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$38K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$35K
- Food Banks British Columbia$30K
- Openroad Foundation$30K
- Walsh Foundation$30K
- Seedlings Foundation$25K
- Vancouver Foundation$20K
- RBC Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$20K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$15K
- Flash Fund Foundation$10K
- The McLean Foundation$10K
- The Landing Youth Centre Foundation$9,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,262
- At the Kitchen Table Foundation$6,000
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- The Harvey and Jody Dales Family Philanthropic Foundation$5,000
- The Tuey Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Face the World Foundation$5,000
- Delta Community Foundation$4,000
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$4,000
- Quesnel Foundation$3,500
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
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$324K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tristan Jagger (director); Debbie Butt (director); Wendy Harris (director); Debra Von Mandl (director); David Jagger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Food Runners Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 769422676RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.