WHITEWATER REGION PUBLIC LIBRARY
Charitable organizationPublic amenities·20 CAMERON ST. P.O. BOX 159 · BEACHBURG, ON · K0J 1C0·BN 856843636RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
TD Summer reading club held at two locations with volunteers helping at each event -Provide reading materials movies and vision impaired reading devices and audio book readers and museum passes for borrow to library card holders. -Provide a video streaming service for free to library card holders. -Author meeting and reading events. -Allow free access to computer use and Wi-Fi to the public. -Offer copying scanning printing and laminating services. -Award winners of the Barbara MacWha Memorial Scholarship to post-secondary students. -Host an in-person reading club at Beachburg branch -Off… Show more
TD Summer reading club held at two locations with volunteers helping at each event -Provide reading materials movies and vision impaired reading devices and audio book readers and museum passes for borrow to library card holders. -Provide a video streaming service for free to library card holders. -Author meeting and reading events. -Allow free access to computer use and Wi-Fi to the public. -Offer copying scanning printing and laminating services. -Award winners of the Barbara MacWha Memorial Scholarship to post-secondary students. -Host an in-person reading club at Beachburg branch -Offer the Sarah Badgley Reading Pack -March Break children's event program -Seeds available to plant through the seed library program
New programs
Host family storytime arts and craft and activities afterschool one day a week at each branch. -Host an online reading club -Trivia fundraising night -Agricultural Fair youth writing contest -Reading Challenge activities ex. Reading Rocket BINGO -Author series: meet and greet with local authors
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)96¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 96¢ 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)3%
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)0.3 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)$117K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)7%
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)85%
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 | $116K | — | 41% | — |
| 2020-12-31 | $103K | 2¢ | 0% | 22.5 yr |
| 2021-12-31 | $125K | 1¢ | 6% | 83.7 yr |
| 2022-12-31 | $113K | 78¢ | 16% | 0.5 yr |
| 2023-12-31 | $111K | 94¢ | 6% | 0.3 yr |
| 2024-12-31 | $117K | 96¢ | 3% | 0.3 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)
Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 618 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.
Board of directors
9 directors reported · 9 of 9at arm's length
- McLaughlin, DebbiCEOarm's length
- Butterworth, JimBoard Memberarm's length
- La Grotta, MonicaTreasurerarm's length
- Clark, Marydirectorarm's length
- McAllister, CynthiaChairpersonarm's length
- Stone-Butterworth, Angelaboard memberarm's length
- White-Tabbert, ConnieCouncil Representativearm's length
- Regier, Cathydirectorarm's length
- Hejazi, Jamalarm'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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