301 - 788 Marlee Avenue
Toronto, ON M6B 3K1
Executive Director: Izzy Waxman
Board Chair: Betty Gaertner

Charitable Reg. #:10768 0779 RR0001

STAR RATING

Ci's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics:

[Charity Rating: 4/5]

✔+

FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY

Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.

B+

RESULTS REPORTING

Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.

n/r

DEMONSTRATED IMPACT

The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.

NEED FOR FUNDING

Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.

73%

CENTS TO THE CAUSE

For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 73 cents are available for programs.



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OVERVIEW

About Mazon Canada:

Founded in 1987, Mazon Canada (Mazon) supports Jewish and non-Jewish food projects across Canada. With headquarters in Toronto, Mazon awards grants to organizations that are small and in need, operate in rural communities, support vulnerable populations, serve healthy food, and are working towards ending food insecurity in Canada. The charity notes that every year, four million Canadians face food insecurity, with one in six of those individuals being a child under 18. Its vision is for Jews to join other Canadians to ensure everyone can live a hunger-free life.

Mazon Canada awards grants in four main categories: Grocery, Garden, Gear and Advocacy. In F2020, Mazon Canada granted a total of $838k. As per Mazon's most recent (F2019) T3010a filing with the CRA, the top three grant recipients were York Region Food Network ($12k), Ve'ahavta ($12k), and Toronto Foundation for Student Success ($11k).

Grocery Grants: Mazon Canada notes this program as being the most urgent aspect of its work. These grants are awarded to organizations buying food directly for people in need. In F2020, Mazon served an average of 1,000 meals per day through its 198 partners. Meals were delivered through the 18 school programs, 94 food banks, 28 hot meal programs, 20 meal delivery programs, and six community kitchens Mazon supported in F2020.

Garden Grants: In F2020, Mazon supported six community gardens. Through this program, Mazon funds supplies for community gardens that teach people how to grow their own food or harvest food for other organizations feeding people in need.

Mazon reported supporting seven organizations with Gear Grants in F2020. Gear Grants fund equipment for food projects to increase capacity to feed those in need, such as new refrigerators or freezers. Mazon also awarded its first-ever Advocacy Grant to the Coalition for Healthy School Food. This grant supported research on the effects of pandemic school closures on school food programs and their dependants, in F2020.

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Results and Impact

In F2020, Mazon Canada reported providing over $200k of direct covid-19 aid, which included food hampers, grocery gift cards, prepared meal deliveries and street outreach meals. This aid provided 110,000 meals to people in need. The charity also notes that 900,000 food insecure people are affected by a Mazon partner program annually.

Charity Intelligence highlights these key results. They may not be a complete representation of Mazon Canada's results.

Charity Intelligence has not assessed impact on Mazon Canada. This shows as n/r, meaning not rated.

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Finances

Mazon Canada is a small charity that received $926k in donations in F2020. Administrative costs are 15% of revenues and fundraising costs are 12% of donations. For every dollar donated, 73 cents go towards the charity’s programs, which is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Mazon Canada has $1.2m in funding reserves, which means that the charity can cover 1.3 years of annual program costs at the F2020 level using its existing reserves.

This charity profile is an update that has been sent to Mazon Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated August 27, 2021 by Rachel Leteta.

Financial Review


Financial Ratios

Fiscal year ending December
202020192018
Administrative costs as % of revenues 14.9%18.6%36.2%
Fundraising costs as % of donations 11.8%17.2%15.5%
Total overhead spending 26.7%35.8%51.7%
Program cost coverage (%) 126.7%341.6%315.6%

Summary Financial Statements

All figures in $s
202020192018
Donations 926,368584,540499,503
Government funding 78,56200
Investment income 6,47914,21928,565
Total revenues 1,011,409598,759528,068
Program costs 76,18125,81622,118
Grants 838,219337,306349,760
Administrative costs 150,171108,896180,779
Fundraising costs 109,049100,26777,325
Total spending 1,173,620572,285629,982
Cash flow from operations (162,211)26,474(101,914)
Funding reserves 1,158,9701,240,4701,173,684

Note: Program, administrative, and fundraising costs were reported as found in Mazon's T3010 filing with the CRA. Both F2019 and F2018 T3010 figures required adjustment for restated values after submission of the T3010 filing. The financial statements for F2019 and F2018 are unaudited.

Salary Information

Full-time staff: 5

Avg. compensation: $28,388

Top 10 staff salary range:

$350k +
0
$300k - $350k
0
$250k - $300k
0
$200k - $250k
0
$160k - $200k
0
$120k - $160k
0
$80k - $120k
0
$40k - $80k
1
< $40k
4

Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2019

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Charity Contact

Website: www.mazoncanada.ca
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