Wood Buffalo Food Bank Association
Charitable organization · Fort McMurray, Alberta · BN 107394934RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,820,892) as filed with the CRA.
Wood Buffalo Food Bank Association is a charitable organization based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $3.4M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 12% from government. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $439K.
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 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $6.7M in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the organization is the operation of a food bank to alleviate hunger in fort mcmurray area boy solicitating donations and collecting food for distribution through a network of programs that serve the target population.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $3.8M | $3.4M | $108K | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.9M | $3.3M | $37K | — | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $36K | — | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $32K | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $5.4M | $5M | $24K | — | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $439K from 19 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$259K
- Giles Family Foundation$90K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$18K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$10K
- AMA Community Foundation$9,055
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$9,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,982
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/fondation Sodexo Inc$4,155
- Family Christian Centre (Fort McMurray)$3,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,962
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$2,500
- Mazon Canada$2,500
- Tabernacle of Praise Pentecostal Church$1,000
- John Wilson Family Foundation$625
- United Way of Calgary and Area$370
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$156
- Fort McMurray United Church$120
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$816K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Merya Gould (chair); Brad Lucier (director); Gordon Valverde (director); Aleksandra Plemic (director); Theresa Wells (vice chair); Jose Alvarado (director); Kerri Ann Macquarrie (director); Linda Mywartt (director); Narcisa Ryan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wood Buffalo Food Bank Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107394934RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.