Focus Humanitarian Assistance
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements available only through official request for information from Charities Directorate.
C
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
Low
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.
93%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 93 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About Focus Humanitarian Assistance:
Founded in 1994, Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) is an international crisis response and disaster risk management agency. Its mission is “to save lives, reduce suffering and create resilience in communities prone to man-made or natural disasters.” FOCUS has four main programs: Prevention (7% of program costs), Response (7%), Assistance (52%), and Mitigation (34%).
Following the 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Tajikistan in December 2015, FOCUS, under its Assistance program, partnered with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the United States Agency for International Development and built 26 yurts in the Burtang Valley to offer villagers a warm place to sleep, cook a hot meal, and offer shelter away from the harsh elements. In June 2016, FOCUS delivered vital food supplies provided by the United Nations World Food Programme to 1,546 individuals in Afghanistan who have been suffering from the country's severe food shortages.
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Results and Impact
Charity Intelligence has given Focus Humanitarian a Low impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Low

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Finances
Focus Humanitarian Assistance is a big-cap charity with $7m in F2015 donations. Its administrative costs are 5% of revenues, and its fundraising costs are 3% of donations. For every dollar donated, 93 cents go towards FOCUS’s programs, falling within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has $11.9m in funding reserves, resulting in a program cost coverage ratio of 160%. This means that the charity can cover 1.6 years of its annual program costs using its existing reserves.
This charity report is an update that is being reviewed by Focus Humanitarian Assistance. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on July 14, 2017 by Kevin Silberberg.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending December
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2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 4.6% | 6.0% | 10.0% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 2.8% | 1.9% | 4.5% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 159.9% | 154.2% | 348.0% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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Donations | 6,963 | 6,703 | 3,749 |
Government funding | 106 | 0 | 0 |
Investment income | 137 | 207 | 240 |
Other income | 2,066 | 1,328 | 1,237 |
Total revenues | 9,272 | 8,238 | 5,226 |
Program costs - International | 7,468 | 7,475 | 4,115 |
Administrative costs | 416 | 482 | 499 |
Fundraising costs | 194 | 130 | 169 |
Cash flow from operations | 1,194 | 151 | 443 |
Funding reserves | 11,940 | 11,528 | 14,321 |
Note: Ci backed out amortization from administrative costs, reducing administrative expenses by ($8k) in F2016, ($12k) in F2015, and by ($14k) in F2014.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
1 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
1 |
$80k - $120k |
1 |
$40k - $80k |
7 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2015
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