A Better World Canada
STAR RATINGCi's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics: |
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements available only through official request for information from Charities Directorate.
B+
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.
92%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 92 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About A Better World Canada:
A Better World, started in 1990, works in over 15 countries, primarily in eastern Africa, providing clean water, healthcare, education, agriculture, and income generation.
A Better World breaks down its program spending in 2018 as 51% to Education, 39% to Health, 4% to Water, 2% to Agriculture, 2% to Income Generation, and 2% to Canadian Projects.
In 2010, A Better World announced its goal of building 100 classrooms in Afghanistan. In 2018, the Classrooms Project built is 101st classroom, reaching its goal. A current goal for the charity is to establish a feeding program at every A Better World school by 2025. For 2019, it plans to build 30 new classrooms, improving the learning environment for 3,500 students, to build 2 new clinics and perform 80 surgeries for children with disabilities, to install 10 school water catchment systems and drill 5 shallow and 2 deep wells, providing access to clean water for 15,000 people, and to create and maintain 5 school gardens, providing consistent meals for 2,000 students.
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Results and Impact
All statistics reported by A Better World are since its founding in 1990. Comparing the 2018 and 2017 Annual Reports provides the following annual data for 2018: 5,290 students attending schools built and/or supported, 9,189 people cared for at clinics build and by staff trained, 23,500 people with access to clean water sources, 1,650 people sustained by home and school gardens, 120 permanent jobs created through investments in small businesses.
Charity Intelligence has given A Better World Canada a Low impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Low

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Finances
A Better World had donations of $1.7m in 2018, down 18% from 2017. Its administrative costs are 5% of revenues and fundraising costs are 3% of donations. Total overhead spending of 8% is within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has $750k in funding reserves that can cover 4.3 months of program costs, indicating a funding need.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending December
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2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 5.2% | 7.7% | 7.5% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 2.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Total overhead spending | 7.7% | 7.7% | 7.5% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 35.8% | 45.8% | 47.8% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Donations | 1,663,937 | 2,038,370 | 1,882,467 |
International donations | 128,392 | 192,830 | 172,049 |
Goods in kind | 203,141 | 183,413 | 0 |
Investment income | 986 | 0 | 0 |
Other income | 7,818 | 0 | 0 |
Total revenues | 2,004,274 | 2,414,613 | 2,054,516 |
Program costs - International | 2,071,653 | 2,135,313 | 1,867,357 |
Program costs - Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grants | 23,496 | 0 | 0 |
Administrative costs | 103,604 | 184,863 | 154,826 |
Fundraising costs | 42,449 | 0 | 0 |
Total spending | 2,241,200 | 2,320,176 | 2,022,183 |
Cash flow from operations | (236,928) | 94,437 | 32,333 |
Capital spending | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Funding reserves | 750,142 | 978,090 | 891,848 |
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
0 |
$40k - $80k |
2 |
< $40k |
1 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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