Chalice Canada
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.
A-
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
High
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.
90%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 90 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Chalice Canada:
Chalice Canada is a 5-star rated charity with High demonstrated impact on its international development programs. Chalice Canada has low overhead spending, with enough reserve funds to cover 7 months of operations. Chalice Canada has an above-average results reporting score.
Founded in 1992, Chalice Canada (CHC) is a catholic international aid charity. CHC provides financial support to impoverished children and elders. It runs programs in 13 countries across 4 continents. In F2023, CHC ran three main programs: Sponsorship, Community Development, and Disaster Response. CHC provides a detailed spending breakdown by country, but not by program. CHC spent $29.8 million on its programs in F2023.
A Charity Intelligence 2024 Top 100 Rated Charity.
CHC’s Sponsorship program is the majority of CHC’s program spending. It did not provide a spending amount on the program. This program is 79% of CHC’s program spending, receiving $23.4m. This program provides financial support for children and elders. CHC stipulates that sponsored families should prioritize spending the sponsorship money on education. CHC sponsored 48,727 people last year, roughly equal to the 48,782 in F2022. CHC manages its sponsorship grants using a "family circles" model. A family circle is a group of sponsored families and a CHC representative. The family circle meets monthly to discuss monthly spending and budgeting. Guardians of sponsored children are also given financial literacy training. In F2023, CHC organized 2,157 family circles. CHC did not provide an up-to-date demographic breakdown of sponsorship recipients.
CHC spent $4.5m on Capital Projects/Human Development programs, which are 15% of its spending. These programs provide training, supplies, and short-term support. In F2023, it worked on 80 projects and programs, including five housing projects, three agricultural projects, and five water projects.
CHC spent $1.4m on Disaster Relief and Critical Needs Response. It accounted for 4% of its overall program spending. In F2023, CHC responded to six disasters and 168 medical emergencies.
CHC spent $512k on its nutrition programs. The programs accounted for 2% of CHC’s overall program spending. In F2023, it had two sites providing nutrition programs and served 3.9m meals.
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Results and Impact
CHC states that of the children it’s sponsoring, 45,956 are currently attending school.
CHC launched a nutrition program in Tondo in 2015. Since launch, 98% of children who participated have attained a healthy nutritional status.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of Chalice Canada’s results and impact.
Ci has given Chalice a High impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: High
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Finances
Chalice Canada is a Major 100 charity, meaning it is one of the country’s largest in terms of Canadian donations. In F2023, CHC received $34.3m in donations and special events revenue. Fundraising costs are 6% of revenues and administrative costs are 4% of revenues. Total overhead spending is 10%. For every dollar donated, 90 cents are available to go to the cause.
CHC has $16.7m in funding reserves. It would be able to sustain spending at a F2023 level for roughly 7 months.
This is a charity update that has been sent to Chalice Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated May 28, 2024 by Ben Dobozy
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending June
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2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 3.6% | 4.1% | 3.8% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 6.0% | 5.3% | 5.3% |
| Total overhead spending | 9.6% | 9.5% | 9.1% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 56.2% | 42.2% | 56.7% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 33,152 | 33,126 | 30,729 |
| Special events | 1,182 | 1,112 | 1,546 |
| Investment income | 362 | 220 | 1,076 |
| Total revenues | 34,695 | 34,458 | 33,351 |
| Program costs - International | 29,782 | 31,605 | 27,256 |
| Program costs - Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Administrative costs | 1,241 | 1,419 | 1,223 |
| Fundraising costs | 2,070 | 1,829 | 1,722 |
| Total spending | 33,093 | 34,853 | 30,201 |
| Cash flow from operations | 1,602 | (395) | 3,150 |
| Capital spending | 3,006 | 314 | (1,324) |
| Funding reserves | 16,738 | 13,342 | 15,448 |
Note: Ci adjusted for deferred contributions, affecting total donations by $39k in F2023, $733k in F2022, and $425k in F2021. Ci adjusted for gain on disposal of capital assets affecting revenue by ($113k) in F2021.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
8 |
$40k - $80k |
2 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2023
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Comments & Contact
Comments added by the Charity:
The following comment is from a previous profile (September, 2020). Additional comments may be forthcoming.
Since its inception, Chalice has been restoring hope and dignity to people in developing countries through our sponsorship program. Children and elders are selected for sponsorship based on need and family circumstances, regardless of race, age, ability, gender, or religion.
Each of our 57 sponsor sites, spanning across 15 developing countries, is under local direction. By working closely with those who live and experience the difficulties of poverty, we gain knowledge and insight on how to best respond to challenges. We assist our religious and lay partner organizations in caring for impoverished children, the homeless, sick, infirmed, and aged by providing health, education, shelter, water, and nutritional benefits.
In order to better understand the changes that Chalice programs are having in the lives of children, their families, and communities, Chalice has established a Learning and Evaluation Framework (LEF) that will allow us to concretely measure what we do and understand our impact more broadly.
Indicators have been developed related to children, their families and communities that represent outputs and impacts of Chalice programming. Information about Chalice programming will be standard across all 57 Sites and allow for collation and analysis of data. More detailed evaluation and analysis of programs will be possible through deep dives, which will allow us to get an in-depth look at a specific program or follow-up key issues that surface through regular monitoring. In 2019-20 Chalice’s LEF was introduced to Sponsor Sites, and we expect that it will be fully implemented in 2020-21.
Chalice provides assistance in the construction, repair and expansion of schools, clinics, hospitals, orphanages, homes, and provides projects and programming that benefit the financially poor. Chalice supports sponsor sites with various types of Community Projects under the following two categories: Human Development Programs (HDP) and Capital Projects (CP). Our projects and programs focus on Education and Training, Food Security, Nutrition and Water, Health, and Community Improvements that strengthen and empower families and communities.
Chalice is committed to being a leader and advocate for financial transparency and accountability, embodying the spirit of Christian stewardship central to Chalice’s mission and work, by providing access to our annual reports and audited financial statements.
We are dedicated to serving those in need around the world by bringing Christ to the poor and the poor to Christ.
Visit us at Chalice.ca to discover how you can help. Donors trying to reach Chalice Canada can call its toll free number: 1-800-776-6855
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