Easter Seals Canada

About Easter Seals Canada:

Easter Seals Canada aims to enhance the quality of life, self-esteem and self-determination of Canadians living with disabilities. Easter Seals Canada and the 10 Easter Seals provincial organizations provide programs and services to over 146,000 Canadians and their families annually. The national organization provides active living opportunities, an assistive devices program, and family & community support. Summer camps are the provincial Easter Seals organizations’ most famous programs. Easter Seals Canada coordinates a “Paper Egg” campaign across Canada, which helped raise over $256,000 at the national level.

The national organization’s work includes the Access 2 card program, which allows persons with a disability to receive free admission or a significant discount for their support person at member movie theatres and attractions.  Additionally, the Disability Travel Card offers discounts to the support person when travelling with Via Rail, Greyhound and Coach Canada.

Financial Review:

Total F2014 revenue of $4.5m includes $2.8m in coporate donations. Administrative costs as a percentage of revenues were 4%, which has remained relatively constant for the past few years. Fundraising costs were 18% of donations in F2014, up from 14% in F2013. Corporate campaign disbursements to provincial Easter Seals charities totalled $2.9m, which was 66% of total expenditures. Easter Seals Canada has total funding reserves of $1.5m which is sufficient to cover 44% of its program costs.