Registered charity

Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

Legal name on the register: GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY

CA-E-JW8J-J4T6CurrentBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Burnaby3 independent sources

$42.2MRevenue reported

$99KPublic money on record

12On the board

12Organisations connected

1Municipal licences

3Independent publishers

86/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-JW8J-J4T6
Address: 8345 WINSTON ST, BURNABY, BC, V5A 2H3
Earliest record: February 21, 2019

Identifiers held

bby-licence: 00177038
Charity registration: 107449787RR0001
Business number: 107449787

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Evidence depth

86/100

Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers

Operationsmunicipal licences

Filed figuresfinancials or workforce

Public moneycontracts or grants

Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links

Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Regulatorydecided findings

Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 12 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration

Operationslicences and operating places

Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce

Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations

Regulatorydecided public findings

Historydated span and recorded events

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	107449787RR0001	—	Registered

Municipal licences (1)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Burnaby	NOT FOR PROFIT	00177038	April 1, 2026	APPROVED

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Board and officers on record (12)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Doug Allen	Director	October 22, 2024	current
Lynn Pelletier	Director	October 22, 2024	current
Ed Ratnarajah	Director	October 25, 2022	current
Brahm Kornbluth	Director	October 25, 2022	current
Robin Smith	Director	October 25, 2022	current
Jonathan Cote	Director	October 25, 2022	current
Lisa Coltart	Director	October 25, 2022	current
Kathryn Holm	Director & Vice Chair	October 24, 2021	current
Alexandra Wenly Julianto	Director	October 24, 2021	current
Keith Martin	Director	October 24, 2021	current
Fiona Macdonald	Director & Board Chair	October 27, 2020	current
John Metras	DIRECTOR	February 21, 2019	current

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (12)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

Organisation	Kind	Names in common
British Columbia Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals CA-E-FKQH-V9H4	Registered charity	1
Brookside Conservative Mennonite Church CA-E-V37K-6KVN	Registered charity	1
Daughters Of St. Paul CA-E-BFCE-YWEY	Registered charity	1
Institute for Religion and Culture CA-E-4KAQ-BHHE	Registered charity	1
Markham Waterloo Mennonite Conference CA-E-DYXZ-2GCP	Registered charity	1
Nanton Future Foundation CA-E-XR6W-XX85	Registered charity	1
Rick Hansen Foundation CA-E-9G0A-KPQR	Registered charity	1
Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre Incorporated CA-E-RBHE-B2TB	Registered charity	1
Scout Properties (b.c./yukon) CA-E-TV9J-95EN	Registered charity	1
Thompson-nicola Regional District Library System CA-E-0S7D-VR24	Registered charity	1
Wild Pacific Trail Society CA-E-6ACZ-AHVT	Registered charity	1
Ymca BC Foundation CA-E-ED8D-Z6S0	Registered charity	1

One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.

What it raised and spent — year ended June 30, 2024

Total revenue: $42,200,523
Total spending: $25,463,372
Total assets: $39,625,650
Total liabilities: $2,370,124

Receipted donations: $15,614,544
From other charities: $4,220,836
Granted onward: $9,402,137

Charitable programs83.2% · $21.2M · line 5000

Management and administration5.3% · $1.4M · line 5010

Fundraising11.3% · $2.9M · line 5020

Not broken down in the return0.1% · $32K

These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.

Public money on record

Federal grants and contributions

$98,687

across 1 agreement, 2021–2021

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	1	$98,687

Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.

What it does

Licensed as: NOT FOR PROFIT
Industry code: 6242
North American Industry Classification System

Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.

Timeline

April 1, 2026Licence first issued — NOT FOR PROFIT
August 17, 2021Federal grant — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada$98,687

Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

Same name and address — 8345 winston, burnaby, BC
asserted by City of Burnaby and Canada Revenue Agency

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

Dataset	Last captured	Cadence	Coverage kept	Health
Burnaby business licences City of Burnaby · Open Government Licence – City of Burnaby	October 15, 2026	P1M	2 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 2, 2026	P1Y	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 5, 2026	P1Y	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 8, 2026	P1Y	2 captures · 1 comparisons	current
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 3, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current

Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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