Founded in 1991 and fully operational in 2008, Food For The Poor Canada is the Canadian branch of Food For The Poor Inc. Food For The Poor Canada provides basic aid and sustainable development to communities in the Caribbean and Latin America. The charity operates through a community-led approach. Food For The Poor Canada asks communities what their needs are and then mobilizes to meet them through different partner organizations. In F2019, the charity focused efforts on supporting Jamaica and Haiti but also provides support to Guyana, Honduras, and the Bahamas. Some examples of supports offered include food, housing, health care, and education.

Education represented 35% of Food For The Poor Canada’s program costs in F2019. Over the years, the charity has built 33 early childhood education schools across Jamaica. Food For The Poor has also provided 3,000 filled backpacks, 250 computers, and 450 soccer balls to schools.

In F2019, health represented 26% of Food For The Poor Canada’s program costs. Since 2008, the charity has shipped more than $26m in medicine to Haiti, Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Jamaica. Hospitals in Haiti received four ultrasound machines and one X-ray machine. In Jamaica, the charity distributed two dialysis machines to the Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation and an ophthalmology machine to an eye clinic.

Food also represented 26% of Food For The Poor Canada’s program costs in F2019. Communities in Haiti have received 2,720 bags of milk powder, 2,760 bags of granola and 15,742 cans of garbanzo beans.

Housing represented 10% of program spending in F2019. Food For The Poor Canada helped build 120 homes in Haiti, 26 homes in Jamaica, and two homes in Honduras. The charity also provided 99 families with a solar-powered light kit to improve their everyday lives.

Food For The Poor Canada is a Medium-sized charity, receiving $1.3m in donations in F2019. The charity also received $2.5m in donated medical aid, educational and food supplies in F2019. The charity received $8.3m in donated supplies in F2018 and $1.2m in F2017. All donated supplies were delivered to communities in need in the same fiscal year. In F2019, Food For The Poor Canada granted $24k to Health Partners International of Canada.

Administrative costs are 4% of revenues and fundraising costs are 12% of donations. In F2019, 90% of fundraising costs were allocated salaries, consulting, and other. 10% of fundraising costs were for events.

For every dollar donated, 84 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $1.2m can cover 1.4 years of annual program costs.

In F2018 and F2019, Food For The Poor Canada paid external fundraisers $16k to raise $0.

This charity report is an update that has been sent to Food For The Poor Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on June 5, 2020 by Tenzin Shomar.