Food Depot Alimentaire is a four-star charity with a Good impact rating. It is financially transparent and has overhead costs outside Ci's reasonable range. It has an average results reporting grade.

Founded in 1987, Food Depot Alimentaire (FDA) provides food to more than 60 agencies including food banks, community soup kitchens, supportive organizations, and school lunch/after-school programs in southeastern New Brunswick. FDA was previously known as Moncton Food Bank but changed its name to better define its work as a distribution centre. It notes that in Moncton, the two area community kitchens serve an average of 740 meals per day to men, women, and children in need. The charity’s primary functions include food storage, distribution, fundraising, food collection, and advocacy.

In 2016, FDA opened the Peter McKee Center in Moncton which combines three community food banks under one building. The facility includes a food bank, an on-site clothing thrift store, a community garden, community rooms, and educational programming. As of April 2021, the Peter McKee Center was no longer operated by Food Depot Alimentaire and became its own entity.

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Food Depot Alimentaire operates a 15,000 square-foot warehouse in Moncton. In F2022, it distributed a total of 4.4 million pounds of food to various organizations, schools, and programs across the province. The largest recipients were Peter McKee Community Centre, Greener Village Community Food Centre, and Shediac Food Bank. Specifically, FDA distributed 4.2 million pounds to 62 food banks and community kitchens.

In F2020, in partnership with Breakfast Club of Canada, FDA distributed 361,778 pounds of food to 50 schools as part of the student nutrition program.

FDA is also part of the Greater Moncton Food Recovery Program. This program aims at recovering food from partners such as Food Banks Canada, Sobeys, Costco, and Wholesale Club. The food is then redistributed to the Peter McKee Food Center and other members of the program.

Food Depot Alimentaire received monetary donations of $1.8m in F2022. FDA received donated food worth $10.9m in F2022. It also received $59k in government funding and $2.0m in lottery profits in F2022.

Administrative costs are 2% of total revenues and fundraising costs are less than 1% of monetary donations. This results in total overhead spending of 3%. For every dollar donated to the charity, 97 cents go to the cause.  This falls outside Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.

Food Depot Alimentaire has total funding reserves of $2.5m. Excluding the cost of donated food, FDA’s funding reserves can cover annual program costs for 11 months.

Ci has sent this profile update to Food Depot Alimentaire for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on June 13, 2023 by Alessandra Castino.