CAMFED Canada is a 5-star charity. It is financially transparent and has a good results reporting score. Its overhead costs are outside of Ci's reasonable range due to a large donation from the Mastercard Foundation.

CAMFED Canada was incorporated in 2009 as a not-for-profit and was established as a charity in 2017. CAMFED Canada supports the work of CAMFED, a United Kingdom-based charity. CAMFED works with local partners in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa to tackle barriers to girls’ education. CAMFED believes that girls’ education is the foundation for social justice, women’s leadership, economic development, and climate action.

At the primary-school level, CAMFED provides school supplies and helps ensure a successful transition to secondary school. CAMFED’s core focus is supporting adolescent girls at secondary school. It does this by helping to pay for school costs, uniforms, school supplies, sanitary items, bicycles, and/or safe accommodations. Each student is provided with social support by a Teacher Mentor at her school. Many students are also supported by Learner Guides (trained peer mentors). CAMFED also supports girls after secondary school. The charity helps young women access skills training, post-secondary programs, and even provides business loans.

CAMFED Canada spent $6.4m (66% of total program costs) on Enabling Women to Lead Change in F2021. CAMFED reports that in F2021, its Transition Guides helped support 47,258 young women about to graduate school. In F2021, CAMFED distributed 2,279 loans with an average value of $451 each. In F2021, 33,630 young women started businesses. CAMFED’s Business Guides and Climate-Smart Agriculture Guides helped support 31,814 businesses in F2021.

In F2021, CAMFED Canada spent $3.1m (31% of total program costs), on Multiplying Girl's Educational Opportunities. CAMFED partnered with 7,018 schools across 166 districts in 5 countries in F2021. CAMFED reports that it helped 125,604 students go to primary school, 124,893 students go to secondary school, and 7,184 young women go on to tertiary/further education in F2021.

The remaining 3% of total program costs were spent on Advocacy and Research & Development.

CAMFED Canada received $13.3m in donations in F2021. CAMFED Canada reports that it received 97% of its funding from the Mastercard Foundation in F2021. Administrative costs are 1% of total revenues and fundraising costs are just above 0% of donations. Total overhead costs are 1%. For each dollar donated, 99 cents go to the cause. This is outside of Ci’s reasonable range for overhead costs. This is likely due to the large amount of grants from the Mastercard Foundation.

Funding reserves of $14.0m can cover program costs for almost 1 year and 6 months at the F2021 level.

CAMFED Canada paid four employees 275k in compensation during F2020. It also paid $225k in professional and consulting fees.

This charity report is an update that has been sent to CAMFED Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated July 11, 2022 by Emily Downing.