Founded in 1959, Primate’s World Relief Development Fund (PWRDF) is an Anglican charity that works to improve health, food security, and livelihoods around the world. PWRDF runs programs both globally, such as health and clean water projects, and in Canada, such as Indigenous culture workshops. Its head office is in Toronto.

Primate’s World Relief Development Fund’s two main programs are Development Work and Relief Work.

Development Work represented 82% of program costs in F2020. PWRDF groups its development programs into four main areas: Preventive Health, Food Security, Empowering Women, and Indigenous Programs. To help reduce disease transmission, the charity installed 36 water purification systems for 5,000 people in Cuba in F2020. In Haiti, PWRDF connected 1,000 women to health services and community programs aimed at preventing violence. To reduce food insecurity in Colombia, it helped to train 720 rural families on finances and organic farming. In F2020, PWRDF also produced two new videos and trained nine facilitators on Indigenous reconciliation in Canada. It states that 8,000 people have benefitted from its Siksika language courses to date. 

Relief Work made up 13% of program costs in F2020. PWRDF’s relief initiatives include Humanitarian Responses and Supporting Refugees. The charity funds disaster responses to help people in immediate danger. In F2020, it supported local food programs that distributed six food baskets to more than 1,100 households in Yemen. PWRDF also funds projects that provide basic needs to refugees around the world. It helped to provide shelter, food, and health services to 1,000 refugees in Jordan and Lebanon in F2020.

The remaining 5% of program costs included public engagement in Canada (3%) and funding to international organizations for other development programs (2%).

Primate’s World Relief Development Fund received donations of $5.8m in F2020. It also received $5.0m in government funding, representing 46% of revenues during the year. Administrative costs are 6% of revenues (less investment income) and fundraising costs are 6% of donations. This results in total overhead spending of 13%. For every dollar donated to the charity, 87 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.

PWRDF has $8.5m in total funding reserves. The charity can cover 89% or around 11 months of annual program costs with its existing reserves.

Charity Intelligence has sent this update to Primate’s World Relief Development Fund for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on August 24, 2021 by Eric Zhao.