Rural Response for Healthy Children
Publicly funded institution · Goderich, Ontario · BN 132232372RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($633,239) as filed with the CRA.
Rural Response for Healthy Children is a charitable organization based in Goderich, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $635K in revenue and $633K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,947.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Rural response for healthy children operates a community based social service operation to raise public awareness of child abuse and neglect by providing quality support education and advocacy programs for children and parents professionals and the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $635K | $633K | $587K | $4,864 | — | $65K |
| 2023 | $551K | $533K | $499K | $2,930 | — | $63K |
| 2022 | $396K | $417K | $386K | — | — | $45K |
| 2021 | $564K | $518K | $483K | — | $0 | $67K |
| 2020 | $563K | $568K | $517K | $3,596 | — | $21K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6,947 from 10 charities:
- Exeter Christian Reformed Church$2,198
- Knox Presbyterian Church$1,485
- Canadahelps Canadon$988
- Centralia Pastoral Charge$800
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Exeter United Church$400
- Wingham United Church$300
- Egmondville United Church$100
- Belgrave Pastoral Charge$100
- Blyth United Church Pastoral Charge$76
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$327K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Katrina Clarke (executive director); Erin Roy (past-chair); Christina Vanpouke (chair); Jaleena Goldsworthy (trustee); Amanda Zehr (trustee); Shannon Lewis-Beattie (secretary); Keri Lyn Courtney (trustee); Wendy Hutton (trustee); Judy Lambers (treasurer); Mark King (trustee); Jessica Van Raay (trustee); Karen Kan (co-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rural Response for Healthy Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132232372RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.