Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118884808RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,167,182) as filed with the CRA.
Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $10.2M in revenue and $10.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 45% from government. In 2024, 46 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $204K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.7M in 2020 to $10.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Farm radio international continues to offer ongoing programs to our constituents and stakeholders including the following: we animate and serve a network of some 1 400 radio stations and 5 000 individual broadcasters in 40 countries in sub-saharan africa with text- and audio-based content resources and training materials and courses. Engagement of broadcasters in the network continues to grow. Farm radio also continues to implement projects working with a wide range of africa canadian and other partners. These projects include program content on nature-based solutions national radio-based …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.2M | $10.2M | $9M | $370K | — | $906K |
| 2023 | $10.3M | $10.4M | $9.2M | $359K | — | $892K |
| 2022 | $10.8M | $10.6M | $9.4M | $320K | — | $979K |
| 2021 | $7.4M | $7.3M | $6.3M | $322K | — | $719K |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $6.6M | $5.9M | $291K | — | $619K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $204K from 46 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$15K
- Nancy's Very Own Foundation$11K
- Airlie Foundation$10K
- Abundance Canada$5,300
- The Firstline Foundation$5,000
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$5,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$4,046
- N.a. Taylor Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,667
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,414
- The Winnipeg Foundation$3,354
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$3,240
- Canada Gives$3,000
- Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception$2,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,500
- Clench House Foundation$2,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,950
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,514
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,400
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,349
- Makeway Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jean Christie (chair); Ravi Gupta (treasurer); Jo-Anne Bund (director); Corina Chevalier (director); Mark Elliot (vicechair); Morag Humble (director); Mwatima Abdalla Juma (director); Selma Khedhaier (director); Jared Klassen (director); Jane Kuluo (director); Sheila Rao (director); Gulzar Samji (director); David Gutnick (director); Nora Young (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118884808RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.