Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
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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.
n/r
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.
77%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 77 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada:
Founded in 1982, Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada (BTFC) funds programs and services to support people with brain tumours. BTFC also gives money to researchers studying potential cures and improved treatments for this disease. Brain tumours are the leading cause of solid cancer death in children under the age of 20, and the third leading cause in young adults. BTFC estimates that 55,000 Canadians have brain tumours. Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada has two main programs, Patient Services and Research.
Patient Services represented 75% of BTFC’s program spending in F2020. Brain Tumour Walk is a community event within this program. In F2020, 22 walk events took place with 10,110 participants. The program also supports brain tumour patients, survivors, and their families with events such as BrainWAVE. In F2020, 16 BrainWAVE activity-filled day events took place across Canada. Patient Services also includes support groups, conferences and other community events.
Research represented 25% of BTFC’s program spending in F2020. Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada supports research groups, students, and fellowships. In F2020, the charity funded 1 research fellowship and 2 research studentships. In F2020, BTFC also awarded 5 Feature Grants of 50,000 each to researchers working on glioblastoma brain tumours. In 2021, the charity’s Feature Grants will focus on pediatric brain tumour research.
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Results and Impact
Dr. Ugljesa Djuric, a 2017 research fellowship recipient, researches brain tumour treatment options. In 2019, three of his research findings were published in scientific journals. One of which outlines a new approach to identify brain cancer types. This discovery has the potential to speed up prognosis.
Other past grant recipients have made progress in the brain tumour research field. For example, Dr. Michael Taylor uncovered the early origins of childhood brain cancer in F2019. These findings could explain why tumours occur so frequently in early childhood.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of BTFC’s results and impact. This charity is not yet rated on impact (n/r).
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Finances
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada has donations and special events revenue of $2.8m in F2020. The charity received $348k in government funding representing 12% of total revenues. Administrative costs are 8% of revenues (less investment income) and fundraising costs are 15% of donations and special events. This results in total overhead spending of 23%. For every dollar donated, 77 cents go to the cause. This falls inside of Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada has $3.5m in funding reserves, of which $345k is donor endowed. Excluding donor-endowed funds, the charity could cover 151% or around a year and a half of annual program costs with current reserves.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on June 4, 2021 by Brenleigh Jebb.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending December
|
2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 7.9% | 7.7% | 8.5% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 14.9% | 18.2% | 20.8% |
| Total overhead spending | 22.8% | 25.9% | 29.3% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 151.1% | 106.3% | 90.9% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 1,137,705 | 1,160,183 | 924,614 |
| Goods in kind | 6,217 | 3,595 | 5,806 |
| Government funding | 348,299 | 0 | 0 |
| Special events | 1,642,585 | 2,330,263 | 2,122,732 |
| Investment income | 150,286 | 221,860 | (18,879) |
| Other income | 7,109 | 9,992 | 11,577 |
| Total revenues | 3,292,201 | 3,725,893 | 3,045,850 |
| Program costs | 2,093,266 | 2,274,981 | 2,369,154 |
| Administrative costs | 246,565 | 269,983 | 261,785 |
| Fundraising costs | 414,761 | 636,684 | 632,517 |
| Total spending | 2,754,592 | 3,181,648 | 3,263,456 |
| Cash flow from operations | 537,609 | 544,245 | (217,606) |
| Capital spending | 12,416 | 20,012 | 6,195 |
| Funding reserves | 3,482,415 | 2,741,970 | 2,461,820 |
Note: Ci reported government funding, affecting revenue by $348k in F2020. Ci removed amortization from program and fundraising costs on a pro-rata basis.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
1 |
$40k - $80k |
9 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2019
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