221 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa, ON K1N 6P1
Executive Director: Samantha McGavin
Board Chair: Amanda Dale

Charitable Reg. #:11897 1100 RR0001

STAR RATING

Ci's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics:

[Charity Rating: 2/5]

✔+

FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY

Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.

C

RESULTS REPORTING

Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.

Low

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.

79%

CENTS TO THE CAUSE

For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 79 cents are available for programs.



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OVERVIEW

About Inter Pares:

Inter Pares is a 2-star charity. It is financially transparent and has overhead costs within Ci's reasonable range but below-average results reporting and Low demonstrated impact.

Founded 1975, Inter Pares works with international counterparts — local and national activist organizations — to help communities confront injustice, implement solutions, and develop innovative initiatives. Inter Pares is also committed to engaging Canadians in the struggle for global justice and equality. The charity specifically focuses on six issues of women's equality, peace and democracy, food sovereignty, economic justice, health, and migration. Its head office is in Ottawa, ON.

Inter Pares currently works with over 70 social justice organizations in 22 countries (ten in Africa, six in the Americas, and six in Asia). The charity did not provide a breakdown of spending by its programs.

Women's Equality: Inter Pares’ work to support women’s equality focuses on women’s health, women’s leadership, feminism, violence against women, and women’s rights. In F2022, the charity's counterpart, Deccan Development Society, brought together 43 women farmers from 14 organizations across India to discuss millet and share climate change strategies, emphasizing the importance of crop diversity and locally controlled seed systems. During the same year, Inter Pares also provided 45 LGBTQI+ activists with leadership skill training with some of its counterparts: Colombia Diversa (Colombia), Asociación Lambda (Guatemala), or Fondo Lunaria (Colombia).

Peace and Democracy: Through this program, Inter Pares works to protect and enforce freedom of expression, human rights, and Indigenous and ethnic rights.

Food Sovereignty: Inter Pares works to foster sustainable food systems that support small farmers, feed communities, and protect the environment. In F2022, Inter Pares began advancing the goal of helping communities build up their own food systems. It worked with five more counterparts and 25,000 farmers, including Aminata, in Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Togo.

Economic Justice: Inter Pares works to prevent human rights abuses and environmental damage in industries. The charity also works on tax justice and advocates for fair international trade agreements that benefit the Southern and Northern societies fairly.

Health: Inter Pares funds counterparts to conduct health research, education and mobilize the public. In F2022, the charity’s counterpart, Likhaan Center for Women's Health, ran ten free clinics and advocated with nearly 50 people for publicly funded sexual and reproductive health services for women in the Philippines.

Migration: Inter Pares works with its Canadian and international counterparts to promote the human rights of refugees, internally displaced people, migrant workers, and cross-border migrants. It supports freedom of movement, the right to resist coercive relocation, and the right of people to return to their homes safely.

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Results and Impact

In F2022, Inter Pares’ counterpart in Burma worked with 80 villages and Indigenous communities to map out their borders and stitch together the outline of the Indigenous protected area. As a result, more than 2,100 square kilometres of land was locally managed, where people who care for it can live, work and grow food.

Charity Intelligence highlights these key results. They may not be a complete representation of Inter Pares' results.

Charity Intelligence has given Inter Pares an impact rating of Low for demonstrated social impact per dollar spent.

Impact Rating: Low

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Finances

In F2022, Inter Pares received donations of $3.2m. The charity also received $6.0m of government funding in F2022, accounting for 65% of total revenues. Its administrative costs are 3% of revenues (excluding investment income), and its fundraising costs are 18% of donations. This results in overhead spending of 21%. For every dollar donated, 79 cents go to the cause, which is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.  

The charity has $10.8m in reserve funds once the loan of $40k is accounted for. The charity could cover 155% or over one year and a half of its annual program costs with its reserves.

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

Updated June 13, 2023 by Krystie Nguyen.

 

Financial Review


Financial Ratios

Fiscal year ending December
202220212020
Administrative costs as % of revenues 3.0%2.9%5.0%
Fundraising costs as % of donations 17.7%18.0%393.0%
Total overhead spending 20.6%20.9%398.0%
Program cost coverage (%) 154.7%155.7%141.0%

Summary Financial Statements

All figures in $000s
202220212020
Donations 3,1853,136119
International donations 0298293
Government funding 6,0044,9934,110
Investment income 68116150
Total revenues 9,2578,5434,672
Program costs - International 04,6323,917
Program costs - Canada 6,9891,4311,460
Administrative costs 271242227
Fundraising costs 564565468
Total spending 7,8246,8716,072
Cash flow from operations 1,4331,672(1,400)
Capital spending 112014
Funding reserves 10,8159,4387,584

Note: Ci used the charity's T3010a filing with the CRA to report international donations and international program spending. The CRA filing for F2022 is not yet available, so Ci could not report the international donations and program spending for F2022. Ci removed amortization from program, administrative, and fundraising costs on a pro-rata basis. Ci adjusted for deferred donations, affecting revenues by $1.3m in F2022, $1.4m in F2021, and ($1.7m) in F2020.

Salary Information

Full-time staff: 19

Avg. compensation: $84,117

Top 10 staff salary range:

$350k +
0
$300k - $350k
0
$250k - $300k
0
$200k - $250k
0
$160k - $200k
0
$120k - $160k
0
$80k - $120k
10
$40k - $80k
0
< $40k
0

Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2021

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Comments & Contact

Comments added by the Charity:

Comment added to the 2021 profile by Inter Pares on July 27, 2021.

These are all interesting and useful questions to ask a charity in regards to its programs, if using a results-based-management approach to social change. These are also all standard questions posed to charities by large funders including the Government of Canada, from whom Inter Pares receives funding. Inter Pares produce extensive reports several times per year which provide data to address these kind of quantifiable outcomes. We also now include a sampling of those concrete numeric outcomes in our Annual Report published each year.

However, Inter Pares has decided not to orient our communications materials towards results-based management to the extent that would lead to high scores on the above questions, for the simple reason that we work with 75 counterpart organizations who are working in 22 countries around the world. To provide quantitative data on the results and lessons learned of all these organizations involves hundreds of pages of reports. In our conversations with our donors, we have often been told that lengthy statistical reports are not what our donors demand from us. Instead Inter Pares uses an approach that focuses on giving concrete individual examples of pieces of our work, as a way of illustrating a bigger picture.

We commend Charity Intelligence Canada for their extensive efforts in facilitating public comparisons of Canadian charities. Due to Inter Pares’ communications approach that focuses on concrete, detailed examples rather than results-based-management, we expect to continue to receive low scores in this assessment.

If you are an Inter Pares supporter and would like to discuss our programming and/or operations, please contact Lorraine Hudson at lhudson@interpares.ca or 1-866-563-4801.

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