Alice House
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.
B-
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
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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.
83%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 83 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About Alice House:
Founded in 1983, Alice House, formerly Alice Housing, gives women and their children safe housing, counselling, and support services. They offer these services to women leaving abusive relationships. It has four main programs: Safe Housing, Counselling and Programs for Women, Counselling and Programs for Children and Youth, and Education and Prevention.
Alice House's Safe Housing program made up 40% of total program spending in F2018. The charity operates 18 housing units across Halifax. It rents these units to women at 60% below market rate. In 2017-2018, Alice House gave 30 families safe housing, advocated for housing 224 times, and gave food support 762 times.
Alice House's Counselling and Programs for Women and Children each accounted for 20% of total program spending in F2018. The programs focus on helping women and children respectively recover from the trauma of domestic violence. In F2018, Alice House reached 66 women and 981 children.
Alice House's Education and Prevention program made up the final 20% of total program spending in F2018. The charity gives presentations to youth, teaching them what a healthy relationship is. In F2018, it gave 36 presentations.
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Results and Impact
Alice House reports that in F2018, 100% of women that lived at Alice House did not return to their abusive partners.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of Alice House’s results and impact.
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Finances
Alice House is a small charity, with total donations of $390k in F2018. Administrative costs are 8% of revenues and fundraising costs are 10% of donations. For every dollar donated, 83 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $444k can cover almost ten months of annual program costs.
This charity report is an update that is currently being reviewed by Alice House. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on May 17, 2019 by Lauren Chin.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
|
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 7.5% | 9.1% | 6.8% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 9.5% | 2.7% | 8.8% |
| Total overhead spending | 17.0% | 11.7% | 0.0% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 81.7% | 67.1% | 72.1% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 390,158 | 276,411 | 360,754 |
| Government funding | 213,292 | 218,527 | 217,572 |
| Fees for service | 105,478 | 107,249 | 110,564 |
| Investment income | 1,188 | 9,219 | 19 |
| Total revenues | 710,116 | 611,406 | 688,909 |
| Program costs | 543,630 | 492,946 | 513,378 |
| Administrative costs | 53,455 | 54,479 | 46,958 |
| Fundraising costs | 37,002 | 7,456 | 31,633 |
| Total spending | 634,087 | 634,087 | 591,969 |
| Cash flow from operations | 76,029 | 56,525 | 96,940 |
| Funding reserves | 444,323 | 330,758 | 370,112 |
Note: Ci adjusted program costs for amortization, reducing total expenses by $13k in F2018, $13k in F2017 and $11k in F2016. The charity's audited financials do not allocate salaries expenses to program, administrative, and fundraising costs. Ci reported total salaries of $387k in F2018, $329k in F2017, and $330k in F2016 in program costs.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
0 |
$40k - $80k |
5 |
< $40k |
3 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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