Moisson Mauricie is a 4-star rated charity that is not financially transparent. The charity has a strong results reporting grade and High demonstrated impact. Moisson Mauricie’s overhead spending is outside of Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has $1.7m in reserve funds, which can cover one year of program costs.

Founded in 1987, Moisson Mauricie / Centre-du-Québec (MME) is the only food bank serving the Mauricie and Centre-du-Quebec area. MME collects, recovers, and distributes food to partner organizations that assist economically and socially disadvantaged people in the area. Moisson Mauricie reports that nearly 31,500 people accessed food support services in Mauricie/Centre-du-Québec in F2022, a 16% increase compared with F2021. Moisson Mauricie also runs a social integration and employment program to help employees develop transferable skills. The charity reports that it helped 31,500 people a month or 378,000 people a year.

The charity is part of Food Banks Canada and Food Banks of Quebec’s networks.

The charity does not provide a total program spending, nor does it disclose how much it spends on each of its programs.

Moisson Mauricie is a Charity Intelligence 2022 Top 10 Impact Charity.

In F2022, MME collected 6.4 million lb of food from 73 suppliers and redistributed 6.3 million lb to 70 member organisations. The charity collected 44% of food locally, from stores, farmers and other local suppliers. It sourced 56% of food nationally, from Food Banks Canada, Food Banks of Québec and other national suppliers. Of the food collected, 36% was non-perishable, 22% was meat and meat-substitutes and 21% was fruit and vegetables. In addition, the charity reports that 21,021 snacks and 41,426 meals were prepared with food it provided. Moisson Mauricie’s urgent help program supported 794 households. The charity provided 51 boxes filled with basic supplies such as hygiene products and food, which helped 138 people.

Moisson Mauricie collects food from supermarkets and redistributes it to its networks. This avoids food waste and increases the variety of food the charity provides. In F2022, the charity reports saving 143 thousand lb of food from 46 participating stores. 39% of this food was meat and meat alternatives.

Moisson Mauricie’s social integration and employment program allows community members to gain work experience by assisting the charity with its services. Employees sort and distribute food and prepare orders for charities in Moisson Mauricie’s network. The goal is for employees to develop transferable skills that they can use elsewhere. In F2022, 389 people participated in the program, providing 28,982 hours of work. The charity provided 5,632 meals for these employees.

Moisson Mauricie is not financially transparent. Its audited financial statements are not publicly available on its website.

Moisson Mauricie received $1.9m in monetary donations and special events revenue and donated food worth $31.3m in F2023. Administrative costs are 0.3% of revenues (excluding investment income) and the reported fundraising costs are 3% of donations. For every dollar donated to this charity, 97 cents are available for programs. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range for overhead expenditures but is not uncommon for food banks with significant food donations.

Moisson Mauricie has net reserve funds of $1.7m which can cover a year of annual program costs.

At the time of this analysis, the charity's F2023 T3010 filing with the CRA is not publicly available. Therefore, the most recent employee compensation information is from F2022.

This report is an update that has been sent to Moisson Mauricie for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated July 17, 2023 by Victoria Allder.

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