Newfoundland and Labrador · Registered charity
GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.
GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. (Newfoundland and Labrador) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$174,149 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$93,030). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labradorlocal
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio match
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 6% · 2021 11% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose C$10k → C$29k.
From the CRA filings of GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 66% · 2019 32% · 2020 63% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
78% of GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Newfoundland and Labrador, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Community Foundation of Newfoundland and LabradorlocalNL · funds 2 organizations near you
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sussex Sharing Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simcoe County Paramedic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steelworkers Humanity Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hamilton Food Shareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carquest Canada Charitable Foundation /portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.
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 Newfoundland and Labrador
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.?
- GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. (Newfoundland and Labrador) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$174,149 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$93,030). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$174,149 in grants to GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC., 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC.?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$93,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GANDER & AREA FOOD BANK (1991) INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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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 14 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register