RUSSELL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Charitable organizationAgriculture·PO BOX 730 STN MAIN · RUSSELL, ON · K4R 1E8·BN 122699416RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-10-31
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
The Russell Agricultural Society's mission is to cultivate partnerships to provide agricultural awareness and education for our Eastern Ontario Communities. Our vision is to enrich rural life and showcase agricultural diversity in our community. We do this by co-ordinating an annual Agricultural fair including livestock homecrafts and crop competitions. Our fair also includes a venue for youth agricultural competitions and themed educational events as well as promotion of local artisans and performers. Our activities outside of the annual fair include: Curling Bonspiel Ladies Nig… Show more
The Russell Agricultural Society's mission is to cultivate partnerships to provide agricultural awareness and education for our Eastern Ontario Communities. Our vision is to enrich rural life and showcase agricultural diversity in our community. We do this by co-ordinating an annual Agricultural fair including livestock homecrafts and crop competitions. Our fair also includes a venue for youth agricultural competitions and themed educational events as well as promotion of local artisans and performers. Our activities outside of the annual fair include: Curling Bonspiel Ladies Night Chicken BBQ Canada Day festivities community market Art in the Country Barn Dance Christmas (European theme) market. These activities support our educational and entertainment programming.
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)71¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 71¢ 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)29%
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)0.8 yr
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)$634K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)0%
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)15%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-31 | $375K | 59¢ | 41% | 1 yr |
| 2020-10-31 | $30K | — | — | — |
| 2021-10-31 | $187K | 32¢ | 68% | 5.3 yr |
| 2022-10-31 | $562K | 75¢ | 25% | 0.8 yr |
| 2023-10-31 | $717K | 65¢ | 32% | 0.9 yr |
| 2024-10-31 | $634K | 71¢ | 29% | 0.8 yr |
| 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
21 directors reported · 13 of 21at arm's length
- KIM, WILLIAMSDIRECTORnot at arm's length
- LOVENUK, KARENHOMECRAFT REPRESENTATIVEarm's length
- OLNEY, CHRISTREASURERarm's length
- LAFRANCE, DONNADIRECTORarm's length
- O'GORMAN-SMIT, ELIZABETHPRESIDENTarm's length
- ROOSEN, KARADIRECTORnot at arm's length
- RUITER, KAITLYNDIRECTORnot at arm's length
- SHELDRICK, RONNA2ND VICE-PRESIDENTarm's length
- WELK, LINDSAYDIRECTORarm's length
- ANDREWS, WILLIAM1ST VICE-PRESIDENTarm's length
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- Blanchard, AshleyDIRECTORarm's length
- IDE, RebeccaDirectorarm's length
- NUGENT, JoseeDirectorarm's length
- BOGEN, Jamie LDirectorsarm's length
- MCLEAN, ErinDirectrarm's length
- OLIVE, AdamDirectornot at arm's length
- ROWLAND, SteveDirectornot at arm's length
- LEIFSO, LauraDirectornot at arm's length
- NEWTON, DebbieSecretaryarm's length
- WILLIAMS, DALEDIRECTORnot at arm's length
- ROWLAND, MHAIRIPAST PRESIDENTnot at arm'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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