Financial Accountability
Our commitment to financial transparency
Canadian Foodgrains Bank has always made open financial transparency a key principle of our organization. We are committed to accounting for every penny donated to our agency and tracking how it is used in our efforts to end world hunger. The board has an active audit and finance committee that provides oversight, the accounts are audited by a national audit firm, and financial reviews are conducted of projects in the field. You can also see some highlights from this past year.
Annual reports
In 2025-26, our members provided assistance to 1,160,441 people in 34 countries. This annual report provides a summary of our humanitarian and development work, along with our work to engage Canadians and government decision-makers. Complete details can be seen below.
Some highlights we would like to share
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See how we spent the money you have entrusted to us
Take a look to see what percentage of our budget we spent on serving people in our mission to end global hunger.
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Five years of working to end global hunger
BUDGETED 2022-2026 PEOPLE COUNTRIES $ ASSISTANCE 2022 overall 939,447 34 52,500,00 Humanitarian food & nutrition 402,072 19 37,130,048 Long-term development 442,373 24 12,590,346 2023 overall 1,103,795 36 79,854,755 Humanitarian food & nutrition 617,008 21 57,956,268 Long-term development 343,992 23 14,395,870 2024 overall 974,683 35 68,344,439 Humanitarian food & nutrition 333,922 16 43,693,971 Long-term development 523,127 24 25,896,180 2025 overall 1,176,111 37 74,574,232 Humanitarian food & nutrition 556,270 17 31,759,210 Long-term development 531,367 26 28,006,122 2026 overall 1,160,441 34 55,694,446 Humanitarian food & nutrition 429,941 16 29,240,507 Long-term development 675,377 24 22,454,240 -
Here are some tangible numbers from our Emergency Food and Nutrition work
The Government of Canada continued to support our emergency food and nutrition assistance through a multi year grant. In certain emergency situations, we’re keeping people from slipping into disaster levels of hunger by sustaining their immediate access to food.
Some highlights from this Government of Canada supported work in 2025-26 include:
- Number of crisis-affected individuals who had increased access to food – 329,566
- Number of pregnant and nursing women, boys and girls receiving therapeutic food and/or supplementary food – 14,488
- Metric tonnes of food distributed – 7,225.5 metric tonnes (15,929,500 pounds)
- Value of cash and/or food vouchers distributed – $7.8 million
- 18,290 mothers and caregivers were trained in infant and young child feeding practices.
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Strengthening our accountability systems
How can we help the helpers? In the international development sector, good work isn’t just about getting the tasks done – it’s also about knowing whether our efforts are improving the lives of the people we aim to serve.
And to know if the work is positively making a difference, the people who focus on monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) play a critical role, helping us to be accountable to the participants and communities we serve, along with Canadian donors such as individuals, churches, and the government, and to make any needed adjustments in helping people take solid steps out of poverty.
Our MEAL work is a collaborative effort involving local partners, member agencies, technical advisors, and Canadian Foodgrains Bank staff. While learning across our network has traditionally taken place through reports, virtual meetings, and sessions embedded in other events, partners and members have consistently expressed a desire for more in-person MEAL support. Face-to-face learning not only deepens discussion and reinforces online and written learning, but also builds trust, strengthens relationships, and creates opportunities for ongoing knowledge sharing.
Recognizing the value of bringing partners together to learn from one another, in 2025-26 we hosted five in-person MEAL workshops across Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe, engaging 207 participants, including 150 staff from 84 local partners, with representation from 14 of our 15 member agencies and partners from 26 countries.
To read more about the network value of these workshops and how we’re incorporating what we’re learning, click here for the full article.
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Three years of restoring landscapes through Nature+
Across four African nations, we’re implementing landscape-level interventions to improve food security and climate change resilience for farming communities through our government-funded Nature+ program. By December 2025, the Nature+ program had:
- reached 77,994 individuals who directly participated in the program, and 44,903 others in the project areas,
- engaged 29,015 individuals in climate-resilient livelihood activities, increasing annual household income by $417 CAD on average, and
- planted 17.9 million trees across three program regions.
To read more about our results, visit nature-plus.ca.