Rare Charitable Research Reserve
Charitable organization · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 877615914RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,932,135) as filed with the CRA.
Rare Charitable Research Reserve is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 7% from government, 44% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $798K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $500 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Canadahelps Canadon. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Conserving protecting enhancing and restoring lands flora fauna rivers and wetlands conducting facilitating and disseminating research and education about the natural environment promoting public understanding about the natural environment and its importance in enhancing the public's quality of life conserving protecting enhancing and restoring buildings structures cultural landscapes and archeological sites conducting facilitating and disseminating research and education about the cultural environment promoting public understanding about the cultural environment and its imp…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $1.9M | $1.3M | $303K | $500 | $12.6M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $1.8M | $1.1M | $237K | $100 | $12.1M |
| 2022 | $3M | $1.6M | $893K | $291K | — | $11.2M |
| 2021 | $4M | $1.6M | $998K | $276K | $60 | $19.8M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.6M | $853K | $259K | — | $7.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $798K from 18 charities:
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$517K
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$80K
- The Stonefields Foundation$45K
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$14K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$10K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$3,500
- The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation$3,102
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation$1,000
- Abundance Canada$850
- BenefAction Foundation$750
- Burlington Community Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Keith Ainsworth (secretary); Madhur Anand (director); Karen Hacker (director); Brian McGee (director treasurer); Joy Roberts (chair); Stephanie Sobek-Swant (executive director); David Agro (director); Claire Mussar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rare Charitable Research Reserve’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 877615914RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.