Adopt a Village in Laos
Charitable organization · Bowmanville, Ontario · BN 836991000RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($288,822) as filed with the CRA.
Adopt a Village in Laos is a charitable organization based in Bowmanville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $304K in revenue and $289K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 65% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $98K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1. Provision of permanent water systems--rural villages in norther laos; 2. Provision of in-home water filters to rural villagers in norther laos; 3. Provision of student support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $304K | $289K | $289K | — | — | $46K |
| 2023 | $211K | $211K | $211K | — | — | $31K |
| 2022 | $172K | $170K | $170K | — | — | $31K |
| 2021 | $175K | $177K | $177K | — | — | $28K |
| 2020 | $249K | $248K | $150K | — | — | $30K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $98K from 18 charities:
- Global Change for Children Society$25K
- Vancouver Foundation$20K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,875
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,500
- Cidel Foundation$5,000
- The Rotary Club of Toronto Philanthropic Fund$4,000
- Rotary Club of Kitchener Grand River Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,436
- Rotary Club of Alliston Charitable Fund$2,000
- Canadian Landmine Foundation/la Fondation des Mines Terrestres du Canada$1,000
- The Rotary Club of Port Perry Ontario Charitable Trust$1,000
- The Rotary Club of Toronto West Charity Trust$1,000
- Willowdale Rotary Club Community Service Foundation$1,000
- Rotary Club of Campbellford Charitable Trust$1,000
- The Rotary Club of Huntsville Charitable Trust$1,000
- The Charitable Trust of the Rotary Club of Ancaster Morning$500
- Neil Murkar Charitable Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$38K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stepehn Rutledge (president); Douglas Byers (director); Barry Mount (director); Hugh Parker (director); Kerry Mount (treasurer); Faye Langmaid (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Adopt a Village in Laos’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836991000RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.