Aunt Leah's Place
STAR RATINGCi's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics: |
✔+
FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
A+
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
Good
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
78%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 78 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Aunt Leah's Place:
Aunt Leah's Place is a top-rated 5-star charity with good impact. This excellent charity has a high results reporting grade and low funding reserves, indicating a need for funding.
A Charity Intelligence 2022 Top 10 Canadian Youth Impact Charity
Founded in 1988, Aunt Leah’s Place works to help youth previously in foster care live independently and helps women avoid losing custody of their children. When youth turn 19 they ‘age out’ of the foster care system and can no longer access financial and social support from the government. 84% of youth aging out have experienced neglect and may not have learned basic life skills such as budgeting, cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. Aunt Leah’s Place gives youth the skills and support they need to live independently. As well, by giving housing and guidance to young mothers, the charity reduces the number of children entering the foster care system. Aunt Leah’s runs four major programs: Housing, Education, Employment and Life Skills.
In F2022, the charity supported 620 people, a 53% increase over 404 people in F2021.
Housing accounts for 68% ($3.0m) of program spending in F2022. The charity runs six housing programs to provide housing to youth and families at risk. In F2022, 117 people were housed and 241 youth were helped to keep their housing. The Threshold program houses teen moms in foster care and adult moms at risk of losing custody of their children. In F2022, Aunt Leah's supported 14 young mothers and their 18 children. The Friendly Landlord Network program is a grouping of private landlords who provide housing subsidies to former foster kids pursuing an education. Currently, the program has 25 landlords with 25 houses and 43 apartments.
Education accounts for 13% ($587k) of program spending. The education programs aim to help Aunt Leah’s clients graduate High School or reach other education goals. In F2022, 140 youth enrolled or re-enrolled in the program.
Employment accounts for 13% ($584k) of program spending. Aunt Leah’s helps youth find sustainable employment and avoid homelessness. In F2022, 71 youth accessed resume building, job training, job search support, connection to employers and other services. Aunt Leah’s also runs a thrift store and a Christmas tree store. These businesses employ and train at-risk youth.
Life Skills programs accounted for the final 6% (258k) of program spending in F2022. The programs aim to equip youth with the skills needed to live independently. Community workshops, creative activities, and counselling are available every Wednesday and Sunday. A 12-week cooking program teaches young moms how to prepare inexpensive and nutritious meals. In F2022, the charity delivered 2,627 meals and counselling sessions to 200 people.
Aunt Leah’s aims to expand its programs to help more people, with a goal to help 750 youth by 2025.
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Results and Impact
Of people supported by Aunt Leah's Place, 81% maintained housing 12 months after finishing one of Aunt Leah's Programs. Aunt Leah’s also aims to help mothers keep their children by providing housing. In F2020, Aunt Leah’s homes housed 25 moms who were at risk of being separated from their kids. 92% of moms maintained custody and 98% secured safe housing upon leaving the program.
Aunt Leah’s reports that in BC, only 21% of foster youth graduate from high school within six years of entering Grade 8, while the average population's graduation rate is over 80%. Of the students supported by Aunt Leah’s education planning program, 45% graduated from High School and 46% have an education plan to do so. In F2022, two people got jobs as a result of Aunt Leah’s employment program.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of Aunt Leah’s Place’s results and impact. Charity Intelligence has evaluated Aunt Leah’s Place and found the charity to have Good demonstrated impact per dollar.
Impact Rating: Good
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Finances
Charity Intelligence has consolidated Aunt Leah’s Place and Aunt Leah’s Foundation in the following financial analysis.
Combined, Aunt Leah's received donations and special events revenue of $3.7m in F2022. The charity received $2.4m in government funding, representing 37% of total revenues.
Administrative costs are 9% of revenues and fundraising costs are 14% of donations. This gives total overhead spending of 22%. For every dollar donated, 78 cents go to the cause, which is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.
Aunt Leah’s has $2.0m in gross funding reserves and $944k in interest-bearing debt, primarily at the foundation. This results in net funding reserves of $1.0m. Excluding $50k in donor-endowed funds, the charity’s net funding reserves could cover less than three months of program costs.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Aunt Leah’s Place for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on May 25th 2023 by Brenleigh Jebb.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 8.5% | 4.6% | 3.6% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 13.9% | 21.7% | 17.5% |
| Total overhead spending | 22.4% | 26.3% | 21.1% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 22.0% | 17.5% | (10.0%) |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 2,751 | 1,520 | 2,038 |
| Government funding | 2,378 | 2,911 | 2,335 |
| Business activities (net) | 73 | 14 | 182 |
| Special events | 962 | 1,078 | 858 |
| Other income | 192 | 228 | 235 |
| Total revenues | 6,356 | 5,752 | 5,648 |
| Program costs | 4,551 | 4,738 | 3,712 |
| Administrative costs | 537 | 262 | 204 |
| Fundraising costs | 517 | 564 | 507 |
| Total spending | 5,605 | 5,564 | 4,423 |
| Cash flow from operations | 751 | 188 | 1,226 |
| Capital spending | 349 | 72 | 227 |
| Funding reserves | 1,051 | 878 | (320) |
Note: Ci has adjusted for changes in deferred donations, affecting revenues by $164k in F2022, ($511k) in F2021, and $454k in F2020. Ci also adjusted for deferred government funding affecting revenues by ($121k) in F2022 and $44k F2021 and $203k in F2020. Business activities represent sales net of social enterprise expenses, affecting revenues and expenses by ($811k) in F2022, ($655k) in F2021, and ($632k) in F2020. Amortization has been removed from fundraising costs for the foundation and from program, administrative, and fundraising costs pro-rata for the operating charity.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
4 |
$40k - $80k |
6 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2022
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