ROYAL AGRICULTURAL WINTER FAIR ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Charitable organizationPublic amenities·39 MANITOBA DR · TORONTO, ON · M6K 3C3·BN 104642772RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair j('The Royal') is recognized as the pre-eminent organization for presenting and promoting excellence in Canadian agriculture food and equestrian activities through world-class competition commerce education and entertainment. The Royal celebrated its 102nd year in 2024. The Royal continues to be the world's largest combined indoor agricultural and international equestrian competition. The main highlights of the Royal are Agricultural and Horse Shows The Discovery Zone youth engagement activities Culinary Academy and agri-food innovation and other e… Show more
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair j('The Royal') is recognized as the pre-eminent organization for presenting and promoting excellence in Canadian agriculture food and equestrian activities through world-class competition commerce education and entertainment. The Royal celebrated its 102nd year in 2024. The Royal continues to be the world's largest combined indoor agricultural and international equestrian competition. The main highlights of the Royal are Agricultural and Horse Shows The Discovery Zone youth engagement activities Culinary Academy and agri-food innovation and other education programs offer learnings of the scientific and practical dimension of Canada's agri-food system and promote awareness on healthy living and offer learnings of how the agri-food sector impacts the everyday lives of Canadians. The Royal also continues to provide vibrant entertainment and family feature attractions and facilitates commerce and outreach programs.
New programs
2024 saw the continuation of changes to our reimagined children's Ag-tivity area with the addition of footing to our animal theatre which allowed us to have additional family friendly sessions with live animals (the footing replaced carpet and large hooved animals require footing for stability). We also held our second farrier (horseshoe) competition in our animal theatre where farriers competing and demonstrated how to make horseshoes over live flame. We also reimagined our food education area with 'Chef's Table' (formerly Culinary Academy) where top chef's held hands on sessions teaching st… Show more
2024 saw the continuation of changes to our reimagined children's Ag-tivity area with the addition of footing to our animal theatre which allowed us to have additional family friendly sessions with live animals (the footing replaced carpet and large hooved animals require footing for stability). We also held our second farrier (horseshoe) competition in our animal theatre where farriers competing and demonstrated how to make horseshoes over live flame. We also reimagined our food education area with 'Chef's Table' (formerly Culinary Academy) where top chef's held hands on sessions teaching students and adults about food cooking and sustainability.
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.
Cents to cause
T1 · computed (open data)20¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 20¢ of each dollar spent went to programs.
Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities.
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Operating overhead
T1 · computed (open data)15%
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Reserves
T1 · computed (open data)—
Years current reserves could cover program spending.
Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$14.9M
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)6%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Government-funded
T1 · computed (open data)9%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2019–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-31 | $12.2M | 21¢ | 17% | 4.6 yr |
| 2020-12-31 | $1.4M | 9¢ | 78% | 43.7 yr |
| 2021-12-31 | $1.8M | 20¢ | 73% | 22.2 yr |
| 2022-12-31 | $15.9M | 19¢ | 19% | 3.5 yr |
| 2023-12-31 | $13.8M | 20¢ | 14% | 3.7 yr |
| 2024-12-31 | $14.9M | 20¢ | 15% | — |
| trend |
From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · ✱ = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
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Board of directors
15 directors reported · 15 of 15at arm's length
- BONACINI, MICHAELDIRECTORarm's length
- EKSTEIN, ARIDIRECTORarm's length
- GAUTHIER, WILLADIRECTORarm's length
- MACKAY, CRYSTALDIRECTORarm's length
- MCKEE, MARYDIRECTORarm's length
- PARKER, JOEDIRECTORarm's length
- PETERSON, SHELLEYPAST PRESIDENTarm's length
- STANTON, RAYPRESIDENT AND CHAIR OF THEarm's length
- UNDERHILL, BETHDIRECTORarm's length
- WATCHORN, DEREKDIRECTORarm's length
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- BOWSER, BRUCEDIRECTORarm's length
- WOOD, GEORGEDIRECTORarm's length
- Harbom, ThomasDIRECTORarm's length
- Langmuir, DiDIRECTORarm's length
- Cooper, CyrusChief Executive Officerarm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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