La Crete Agricultural Society
Charitable organization · La Crete, Alberta · BN 107585887RR0001 · Agriculture
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($546,244) as filed with the CRA.
La Crete Agricultural Society is a charitable organization based in La Crete, Alberta, classified by the CRA under agriculture. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $587K in revenue and $546K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,313.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 22 names.
In its own words
The society operates the la crete heritage centre which is a facility for rental by the community as well as the mennonite heritage village comprising of a museum site with traditional mennonite artifacts and buildings. The purpose of the society is to promote improvement in agriculture horticulture homemaking and quality of life in agricultural community by providing facilities and organizing community events.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $587K | $546K | $329K | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $492K | $513K | $287K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $446K | $457K | $232K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $639K | $466K | $132K | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $410K | $358K | $150K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6,313 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$216K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacob Driedger (director); Jake Driedger (director); Frank Friesen (treasurer); David Froese (director); George Krahn (director); John Letkeman (director); Ed Martens (director); Jason Neudrof (director); Benj Peters (director); Cornie Peters (director); Jake Peters (director); Jake Reimer (vice-president); Dave Slemens (director); Susan Siemens (secretary); Andrew Wiebe (director); Helen Wiebe (director); Jake Wiebe (president); John Wieler (director); Stephen Wieler (director); Cornie Wiens (director); Bill Zacharias (director); George Zacharias (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from La Crete Agricultural Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107585887RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.