Veterans Association Food Bank
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 719859480RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,833,436) as filed with the CRA.
Veterans Association Food Bank is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 8% from government, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 57 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Food hampers - veterans are eligible for a food hamper (appx $450 worth of food) once a month. Along with the food hamper we also include a $100 grocery gift card to allow the veteran to purchase fresh meats evac (emergency veterans assistance costs) - the evac program provides financial assistance to ensure veterans are able to keep the lights on. This program is meant to ease the financial burden of unexpected events (vehicle breakdowns funeral costs uncovered medical expenses job loss). The evac program can also accessed for help with damage deposits and first month's rent for veterans …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.8M | $3.4M | $153K | — | $954K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2.4M | $187K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $33K | $11K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $16K | $4,103 | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $578K | $484K | — | $1,233 | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.7M from 57 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$330K
- Canadahelps Canadon$296K
- Canadahelps Canadon$296K
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$204K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$75K
- The Calgary Foundation$75K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$72K
- Aqueduct Foundation$52K
- Buchanan Family Foundation$50K
- Abundance Canada$39K
- Varsity Acres Presbyterian Church$36K
- Canada Gives$26K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$16K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$13K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$13K
- Trotter Family Foundation$10K
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$10K
- ATCO Electric Epic$8,442
- Chadi Family Foundation$5,000
- Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Commandery of Edmonton$5,000
- AMA Community Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$4,040
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$4,000
- Northwestern Alberta Foundation$3,400
- The Foundation for Seniors' CARE-Hearts of Excellence$3,143
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$911K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allan Hunter (vice chair); Curtis Wedge (chair); Cynthia Ashe (secretary); Chris Lefaivre (treasurer); Leo Boyd (director); Goerge Carbert (director); Shane Jennings (director); Kidd David (director); Justin Yaassoub (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Veterans Association Food Bank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 719859480RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.