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Sample figures from F2024 T3010 filings, self-reported: World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada, 84¢ to programs; Tearfund Canada, 87¢ to programs; Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge, 94¢ to programs; Furniture Bank, 94¢ to programs; Indwell Community Homes, 88¢ to programs, and more.

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Figures per each charity's F2024 T3010 · self-reported, not audited by us · cents to programs is a T1 computed figure.

Most Canadian charities have never been rated.

Rating agencies do deep, careful work on a few hundred organizations. For everyone else, the answers have been sitting in public CRA filings. We compute the numbers for every charity that files enough detail, and we show our work.

registered charities in Canada

83,761

rated by Charity Intelligence's analysts · 1.0%

819

of last-reported sector revenue

$412B

charities we compute donor-facing numbers for

60,998

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Every charity gets a card like this one. Real example, live data:

Daily Bread Food Bank

Toronto, Ontario· poverty & hunger

Charitable organization

85¢of every dollar spent reaches programsT1 · computed

This charity: 85¢ · sector median: 89¢ (self-reported) · all 60,998 computed charities

Reserves

0.9 yr

of yearly program spend

Donor-funded

26%

sector median 20%

Revenue

$84.6M

last reported

5 of 5 stars · results grade A · Charity IntelligenceT2 · analyst-reviewed

Source: CRA T3010, filed F2024 · self-reported, not audited by us · view the public record ↗

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The numbers are self-reported.

Every figure comes from the charity's own T3010 filing. We compute honestly from it, but we don't audit it, and we say so on every card.

The data lags.

Charities file up to six months after year-end and the CRA takes time to process. Read every number as "last reported" (F2024), not live.

Coverage has gaps.

We can compute cents-to-cause for 60,998 of 83,761 charities and reserves for 42,874. Charities that file less detail show fewer numbers, never invented ones.

Impact is hard.

Whether a program works isn't in any filing. Where Charity Intelligence's analysts have rated it (819 charities), we show that, clearly labelled. We don't fabricate impact for the rest.

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