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Top 21 Food rescue organizations based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 58 food rescue organizations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 687 professional contacts across them, including 199 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers food rescue organizations headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
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The 21 largest food rescue organizations based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Second Harvest is Canada’s largest food rescue organization and is a global thought leader on perishable food redistribution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1984, Moisson Montréal is the largest food bank in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Food for Life sources fresh, nutritious food and shares it to with our neighbours in need through community partnerships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At FoodFund, our vision is to eliminate food waste and alleviate hunger – one harvest, one delivery and one household at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quest Outreach Society is a not-for-profit organization that provides dignified access to a variety of affordable and healthy foods to individuals facing food security challenges…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Leftovers Foundation’s mission is to reduce food waste and prevent the greenhouse gas emissions caused when good food is left to rot.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe everyone deserves access to a better life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1 in 7 Canadians live below the poverty line, while the majority of new unsold or surplus goods end up in landfills.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At La Transformerie, it’s quite simple.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Food Stash Foundation is a registered Canadian charity that rescues food that would have otherwise gone to waste and redirects it to those in need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our innovative Vancouver Food Runners app (powered by Food Rescue Hero) is an end-to-end system that matches food donors to nonprofit partners and mobilizes volunteers to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dunord réduit le gaspillage alimentaire systémique au Canada en popularisant les repas déshydratés et en rescapant les surplus de fermes locales du Québec.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Orangeville Food Bank is an organization of volunteers that help families in need with an emergency supply of food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Project FoodChain, a federally regulated charity, breaks down barriers to nutritious food and wellness, faced by unhoused unhoused residents in Ontario.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The model of People’s Pantry Food Recovery Society is to reclaim food that would otherwise be discarded and use it for the benefit of individuals and families faced with food…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rescue Food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission: To work within our community to gather and distribute nutritious food to those in need, and to contribute to public awareness of the conditions that lead to food…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Why Can’t We Feed Everyone (WCWFE) is firm in our belief that we can help in the fight to cure hunger across Ottawa, with ambitions of curing hunger in Ontario then Canada and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The goal of Feed It Forward is to feed Canadians, not landfill.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The mission of The For GOOD Foundation is to source surplus food and manufacturing capacity and turn it into GOOD nutritious food for those who need it most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: food rescue organizations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names food rescue organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of food rescue organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name food rescue organizations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Food rescue organizations based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 58 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among food rescue organizations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “food rescue organizations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names food rescue organizations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among food rescue organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 199 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names food rescue organizations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many food rescue organizations are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 58 food rescue organizations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Second Harvest, headquartered in Etobicoke, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most food rescue organizations?
Toronto leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (6) and Vancouver (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 199 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 58 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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