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.
Good
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.
84%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 84 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About ERDO:
ERDO is a 5-star charity. It is financially transparent, has a good B+ results reporting grade, and has reasonable overhead costs. Ci has given ERDO a Good impact rating.
Founded in 1983, the Emergency Relief and Development Overseas (ERDO) is an international aid charity which serves as the humanitarian agency of The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. It works to provide crisis support, community development, and child sponsorship to families in poor countries. ERDO is a member of Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Humanitarian Coalition.
A Charity Intelligence 2024 Top 100 Rated Charity.
In F2023, ERDO ran three main programs. The largest is its Crisis Response program, which provides food, supplies, medicine, and housing support to people affected by natural disasters and war. The second is its ChildCARE Plus program, which sponsors impoverished children. The program provides food and funding for education. The last is its Community Development program. This program organizes educational, sanitary, and nutritional programs for communities. ERDO provides a detailed spending breakdown in its annual report. In F2023, ERDO spent $16.2m on its programs.
The Crisis Response program received $10.3m in F2023, comprising 63% of ERDO’s spending in F2023. In F2023, ERDO ran 53 projects in 27 countries. Programs include building 20 disaster resistant homes in Haiti, providing psychosocial support for 949 children in Myanmar, and supplying 69,110 people in Ukraine. ERDO provides a breakdown of program activities by crisis in its annual report. ERDO reports that its Crisis Response program reached 343,438 people in F2023.
The ChildCARE Plus program comprised 24% of ERDO’s spending, receiving $3.9m in funding in F2023. ERDO ran programs in 41 locations in 28 countries. ERDO reports that 62% of sponsorship locations offered children extra tutoring outside school. Additionally, 85% of locations taught children about proper nutrition in school. ERDO reports that it sponsored 7,698 children in F2023.
ERDO’s Community Development program comprised the remaining 12% of program spending. It received $2.0m in F2023. ERDO ran 28 projects in 14 countries. ERDO ran a large number of Community Development programs. Some examples include job training and microloans to 4,837 people in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh. ERDO distributed 10,000 menstruation and hygiene kits to women in Iraq. ERDO reports that it reached 157,462 people with its community development programs.
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Results and Impact
In F2023, ERDO reports that 335 boys and 404 girls in its ChildCARE Plus program graduated primary school. 196 boys and 273 girls enrolled in the program graduated secondary school.
In response to the flooding in Burundi, ERDO brought food to 750 people. It provided food to 2,500 families and provided shelter and hygiene to 500 families after flooding in Pakistan.
In F2023, ERDO provided food, medicine, and shelter to 69,110 people in Ukraine. It helped establish a preschool for 60 Ukrainian refugee children. It evacuated 3,000 children with disabilities from Ukraine.
ERDO provided monthly food support for 60 sponsored children in Kenya. It provided a weekly meal to 860 students in Haiti, and two weekly meals to students with disabilities.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of ERDO’s results and impact.
Charity Intelligence has given ERDO a Good impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Good
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Finances
In F2023, ERDO received $9.9m in donations. It received $4.4m in government funding, comprising 26% of total revenue. Fundraising costs are 12% of donations, and administrative costs are 4% of revenues. Total overhead spending is 16% of revenue. For each dollar donated, 84 cents are available to go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.
ERDO has total reserve funds of $8.4m, which can cover its program costs for 6 months.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to ERDO for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on June 4, 2024 by Ben Dobozy.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending September
|
2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 4.0% | 4.1% | 5.3% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 11.6% | 8.2% | 9.4% |
| Total overhead spending | 15.6% | 12.3% | 14.7% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 39.6% | 63.5% | 75.4% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 9,906 | 11,150 | 9,426 |
| Government funding | 4,400 | 2,499 | 1,511 |
| Other income | 2,788 | 1,093 | 555 |
| Total revenues | 17,094 | 14,742 | 11,492 |
| Program costs - International | 16,183 | 11,811 | 8,518 |
| Program costs - Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Administrative costs | 677 | 601 | 604 |
| Fundraising costs | 1,148 | 914 | 887 |
| Total spending | 18,009 | 13,325 | 10,009 |
| Cash flow from operations | (915) | 1,417 | 1,482 |
| Capital spending | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Funding reserves | 6,405 | 7,499 | 6,424 |
Note: Ci included incoming transfers within Canadian Food Grains Bank (CFGB) account in Other revenue, and outgoing transfers to CFGB in program costs.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
1 |
$80k - $120k |
8 |
$40k - $80k |
1 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2023
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Comments & Contact
Comments added by the Charity:
At ERDO we passionately respond to the practical needs of people living in poverty and crisis around the world. Seeking the dignity and value of every human, we are working to reduce poverty and create ways for people and families to become self-sufficient.
This starts with community collaboration, partnering to build something that lasts.
In everything, we take our direction from the community itself, talking with local leaders and local churches who know the needs of their community. Together, and alongside a network of trusted partners, we build programs that will reach a community’s goals and work diligently to leave these programs in local hands.
When we respond to a crisis situation we provide for people’s immediate needs of food, clean water and shelter. Then we move toward rebuilding livelihoods, bringing people back to independence and making them more resilient to future emergencies.
And we’re growing! In the last five fiscal years we’ve gone from 10.6 million to over 17 million dollars in donations. Our Crisis Response programs have grown from a 3.5 million expenditure to an over 10 million expenditure each year, meaning that each year we’re bringing more and more families critical assistance in vulnerable moments.
Thank you for supporting ERDO over the last 40 years! We’re looking forward to even more opportunities to do good in the world.
Charity Contact
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