Yarmouth Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Yarmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 131499147RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($216,587) as filed with the CRA.
Yarmouth Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $216K in revenue and $217K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $66K.
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 91% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $398K in 2020 to $216K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Collects food and money (to purchase food) from individuals churches civic groups and businesses and co-ordinate the disbursement to needy families and individuals on an on-going basis. To also assist with fuel oil electricity and wood for same or similar families or individuals in need.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $216K | $217K | $217K | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $344K | $193K | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $222K | $127K | — | — | $55K | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $122K | $55K | — | — | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $398K | $77K | — | — | $10K | $894K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $66K from 15 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$22K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$14K
- Old Ladies Home Society$8,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,105
- Beacon United Church of Canada$4,220
- Beacon United Church of Canada$2,980
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,000
- Wesleyan Church of Yarmouth$1,795
- Faith Memorial United Baptist Church$1,615
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,507
- Yarmouth North Baptist Church$1,095
- Yarmouth North Baptist Church$514
- United Way of Greater Toronto$117
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Avery Newell (chair); Beulah Taylor (co-ordinator); Ray Flynn (co-ordinator); Alan Mohle (director); Garth Killiam (director); Art McPhee (director); Anna Baker (co-ordinator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yarmouth Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131499147RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.