Daily Bread Food Bank

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About Daily Bread Food Bank

Overview

The Daily Bread Food Bank is dedicated to alleviating hunger and fighting the underlying poverty that causes hunger. They achieve this mission through various initiatives such as collecting and distributing food to their member agency programs, supporting agencies in creating and operating food distribution services, conducting research on poverty, advocating for improved government policies, providing information and referral services to clients, and running an industrial kitchen that prepares thousands of servings for meal programs in Toronto. Additionally, Daily Bread serves as a major distribution point for the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB), helping distribute food across Ontario.

Mission

To alleviate hunger and help fight the underlying poverty that causes hunger through food collection and distribution, supporting member agencies, conducting research and advocacy for policy changes, providing information and referral services, and operating industrial kitchen facilities.

Vision

Rights-based approach recognizing food as a human right, collaboration with community partners, transparency in operations, and commitment to addressing root causes of poverty through systemic change.

Unique value proposition

As Canada's largest food bank serving over 350,000 client visits monthly, Daily Bread combines emergency food distribution with research and advocacy work, publishing the influential Who's Hungry report and successfully advocating for policy changes like the Canada Disability Benefit while operating both distribution and meal preparation facilities.

Financial overview

Revenue (2025)
$88,476,390
Expenses (2025)
$87,283,492
Total assets
$42,034,811
Liabilities
$2,843,639
Year Revenue Expenses Program Admin Fundraising
2025 $88,476,390.00 $87,283,492.00 $34,157,612.00 $1,286,226.00 $5,319,168.00
2024 $84,599,407.00 $87,069,775.00 $34,299,572.00 $1,306,644.00 $4,858,190.00
2023 $67,739,448.00 $64,904,965.00 $25,492,643.00 $1,126,832.00 $4,131,139.00
2022 $60,156,881.00 $60,752,565.00 $11,283,833.00 $869,447.00 $3,362,399.00
2021 $60,620,842.00 $43,868,195.00 $7,372,492.00 $780,207.00 $2,861,729.00
2020 $51,502,089.00 $37,372,188.00 $7,858,773.00 $663,198.00 $2,628,162.00

Financial data sourced from the Canada Revenue Agency.

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Leadership team

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Neil Hetherington

CEO

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Rose Besler

Senior Leadership Team Member

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Samantha Cooke

Vice President, Philanthropy

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Brittney Wong

Marketing and Communications Manager

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