Russell Agricultural Society
Charitable organization · Russell, Ontario · BN 122699416RR0001 · Agriculture · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($667,774) as filed with the CRA.
Russell Agricultural Society is a charitable organization based in Russell, Ontario, classified by the CRA under agriculture. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $634K in revenue and $668K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 15% from government. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,760.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $5,000 in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Naomi's Family Resource Centre (winchester). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $30K in 2020 to $634K in 2024.
In its own words
The Russell Agricultural Society's mission is to cultivate partnerships to provide agricultural awareness and education for our Eastern Ontario Communities. Our vision is to enrich rural life and showcase agricultural diversity in our community. We do this by co-ordinating an annual Agricultural fair including livestock homecrafts and crop competitions. Our fair also includes a venue for youth agricultural competitions and themed educational events as well as promotion of local artisans and performers. Our activities outside of the annual fair include: Curling Bonspiel Ladies Nig…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $634K | $668K | $469K | $97K | $5,000 | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $717K | $644K | $419K | $79K | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $562K | $518K | $391K | $39K | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $187K | $147K | $46K | $67K | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $30K | — | — | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2,760 from 1 charity:
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
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Russell Agricultural Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 122699416RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.