Centraide Outaouais
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✔+
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.
73%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 73 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About Centraide Outaouais:
Founded in 1979, Centraide Outaouais (United Way of the Outaouais) aims to improve the lives of people in the Outaouais by collecting and distributing money to local charities. Centraide Outaouais reports that 8,200 families are living under the poverty line in the Outaouais, an area that includes Gatineau and the surrounding communities. The charity’s three granting programs are focused on: Improved Living Conditions, Youth Achievement and Building Strong Communities.
The charity reports that 33% of people using foodbanks are under the age of 18 and that 12% of applications for food aid come from immigrants. Through its Improved Living Conditions granting program, the charity supports organizations that offer food and distress support programs to the community. In F2018, Centraide Outaouais funded 56 organizations and two initiatives which resulted in 15,973 people being fed and 102 people reentering the job market.
Centraide Outaouais reports that 15% of people aged 25 to 64 in Outaouais have no diploma. Through its Youth Achievement granting program, the charity supports organizations that run programs designed to decrease school dropout rates and stop bullying. In F2018, Centraide Outaouais funded 33 organizations and two initiatives that helped 16,025 youth.
Through its Building Strong Communities granting bucket, Centraide Outaouais works to help with the integration of new members in the community by supporting neighborhood and youth centres. In F2018, Centraide Outaouais funded five programs and four initiatives.
In F2018, Centraide Outaouais granted $2.0 million to local agencies. The three largest grant recipients were GÎTE AMI ($102k), Soupe Populaire de Hull ($67k), and Entraide de la Vallée ($64k).
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Finances
The financial analysis completed by Charity Intelligence used incomplete, summary financial statements that included no notes as full statements were not available to Ci at the time of writing this report.
Centraide Outaouais is a medium-sized charity with donations of $3.2m in F2018. Administrative costs are 8% of revenues and fundraising costs are 19% of donations. For every dollar donated to the charity, 73 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Centraide Outaouais has $2.6m in funding reserves. Reserves can cover program and granting activities at the F2018 level for just over one year.
Charity Intelligence has analyzed the charity’s French audited financial statements to the best of our abilities but we recognize that detailed financial information in French is beyond our linguistic expertise.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Centraide Outaouais for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on August 6, 2019 by Stefan Tetzlaff.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending June
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2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 8.5% | 7.9% | 0.0% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 18.8% | 19.1% | 16.7% |
Total overhead spending | 27.4% | 27.0% | 16.7% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 107.3% | 100.0% | 75.9% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Donations | 3,234,344 | 3,437,519 | 4,538,338 |
Investment income | 6,924 | 9,736 | 1,057 |
Other income | 68,270 | 78,062 | 63,532 |
Total revenues | 3,309,538 | 3,525,317 | 4,602,927 |
Program costs | 423,782 | 477,657 | 0 |
Grants | 1,960,805 | 2,243,172 | 3,555,241 |
Administrative costs | 281,929 | 279,055 | 0 |
Fundraising costs | 609,497 | 656,055 | 755,838 |
Other costs | 41,870 | 43,478 | 0 |
Total spending | 3,317,883 | 3,699,417 | 4,311,079 |
Cash flow from operations | (8,345) | (174,100) | 291,848 |
Funding reserves | 2,558,201 | 2,721,894 | 2,698,750 |
Note: Ci used the charity’s T3010A filing to allocate program, fundraising, and admin costs in F2017 and F2018. In F2016, this information was not available and as a result the information is not comparable.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
2 |
$40k - $80k |
8 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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