British Columbia · Registered charity
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 308 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$28,807,163 to it, the largest being FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$5,976,647). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$42M
- Funders on record
- 308
- Grants received
- C$29M
- Net assets
- C$37M
What Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society does
Ongoing programs
The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its Vancouver Burnaby New Westminster and North Shore catchment cities. The organization also provides food to the community through partnerships with 150+ Community Agencies and 5 Provincial Agencies which include affordable housing agencies women's and children's shelters and after-school programs providing groceries hot meals and snacks to thousands of people each week including those struggling with homelessness. The Society is committed to its vision of healthy communities through fair and effective food systems. Programs established include: - Distribution Sites: providing direct food access through a safe and welcoming client experience at its three locations. - Agencies: providing in-kind support to over 150 Community and 5 Provincial Agencies. - Baby Steps: specifically targeting babies from birth to 24 months. All food items in this program are high-nutrient products aimed at stimulating healthy growth and brain development. -…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$17M to C$27M (+54%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 83 funders to 135 funders, grant income rose C$804k → C$7.3M.
From the CRA filings of GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 308 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 41% · 2019 43% · 2020 9% · 2021 33% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY?
- GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 308 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$28,807,163 to it, the largest being FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$5,976,647). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 308 organizations giving C$28,807,163 in grants to GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY, 195 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY?
- FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$5,976,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 308 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register