Hope and Healing International

1600 16th Avenue, Unit 1
Richmond Hill, ON L4B 4N6
Executive Director: Ed Epp
Board Chair: Brenda Ben

Charitable Reg. #:10691 8329 RR0001

STAR RATING

Ci's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics:

[Charity Rating: 4/5]

✔+

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.

Average

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.

71%

CENTS TO THE CAUSE

For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 71 cents are available for programs.



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OVERVIEW

About Hope and Healing International:

Hope and Healing International is a 4-star rated charity with an average demonstrated impact on its international development programs. The charity has an A results reporting grade and best practices in financial transparency. It has reasonable overhead costs and reserve funds.

Founded in 1908, Hope and Healing International (HHI, formerly Christian Blind Mission), works to help children and adults with disabilities in developing countries. The charity states that 240 million children live with a disability. 80% of these children live in developing countries. It also states that 65% of child disability in low-income countries is preventable. In F2022, Hope and Healing International’s programs reached 1,831,806 people.

Hope and Healing’s largest programs are Child Health, Family Livelihood, and Education.

Child Health – 59% of program costs ($14.4m). HHI funds partners and provides medical supplies and treatments to children in poverty. In F2022, it funded health care for 904,319 children. In F2022, it funded 93,613 consultations. It also funded 1,537 devices like glasses, walkers, and wheelchairs.   

Family Livelihood – 28% of program costs ($6.8m). HHI funds programs for low-income households. These include job training, loans, and medical care for family members with disabilities. In F2022, 207,515 children and caregivers benefitted from this program. It funded 80,039 adult medical consultations and 2,230 adult surgeries. It also built or refurbished 17 homes.

Education – 6% of program costs ($1.4m). HHI helps raise teachers, students, and parents’ awareness of disabilities. It also helps make buildings accessible. In F2022, its education program reached 26,229 children. Its partners trained 161 teachers on how to support children with disabilities. It also funded 16 accessible school latrines.

The remaining 7% of program costs included Social Attitudes (4%) and Self Value (3%). These programs aim to help people with disabilities feel included in their communities. The programs reached 409,937 and 2,655 people, respectively.

 

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Results and Impact

In F2022, Hope and Healing International gave medication to 26,420 children to prevent River Blindness. It also gave glasses to 448 children, improving their eyesight.

During the year, HHI piloted a new program in Uganda. It aimed to improve self-image of children with disabilities. The percentage of children who feel positively about their body improved from 34% to 94%. The percentage of children who are comfortable asking for help when they need it increased from 34% to 85%.

While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of Hope and Healing International’s results and impact.

Charity Intelligence has given Hope and Healing International an Average impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.

Impact Rating: Average

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Finances

In F2017, Hope and Healing International acquired Christian Blind Mission US (the US affiliate of HHI). In F2019, Hope and Healing transferred control of Christian Blind Mission US to a separate organization. As such, the financial analysis for all three years below does not include revenues or expenses for US operations.

Hope and Healing International received $15.9m in cash donations and $19.2m in donated goods (mainly medical supplies and equipment) in F2022. This is a 43% increase in donated goods compared to F2021.

Administrative costs are 4% of revenues (less investment income), and fundraising costs are 25.5% of cash donations. This results in total overhead spending of 29%. For every dollar donated, 71 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.

HHI has reserve funds of $15.9m. These can cover program costs at current levels for just under 2 years, not including donated goods used in programs.

In F2020, HHI's financial statements reported an endowment fund with a balance of $2.3m. In F2021 and F2022, this fund is classified as externally restricted. As such, Ci has made no adjustments to funding reserves for all three years below. 

­­In F2022, Hope and Healing International paid external fundraisers $1.3m to raise $3.1m, at a cost of 44 cents per dollar raised.

Charity Intelligence has sent this update to Hope and Healing International for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on May 15, 2023 by Emily Downing.

Financial Review


Financial Ratios

Fiscal year ending June
202220212020
Administrative costs as % of revenues 4.0%5.2%5.5%
Fundraising costs as % of donations 25.6%30.9%23.8%
Total overhead spending 29.5%36.1%29.2%
Program cost coverage (%) 192.7%192.4%153.1%

Summary Financial Statements

All figures in $000s
202220212020
Donations 15,87612,45013,979
Goods in kind 19,20613,38910,062
Government funding 0228111
Investment income (575)2,288320
Other income 351859
Total revenues 34,54228,37324,532
Program costs - International 5,7594,8406,342
Program costs - Canada 2,5042,6022,503
Donated goods exp 16,16013,0579,907
Administrative costs 1,3861,3531,320
Fundraising costs 4,0573,8473,320
Total spending 29,86525,69923,392
Cash flow from operations 4,6772,6741,139
Capital spending 721,960(6,361)
Funding reserves 15,92514,31913,540

Note: In F2021 and F2020, Ci reported the Covid-19 emergency wage and rent subsidies as government funding. Ci removed donations in kind from international program costs and reported them separately. Ci reported donated goods-in-kind used in programs from the charity's T3010 filing with the CRA and removed this amount from international program costs. As such, the charity's operating cash flow includes donated goods-in-kind held in inventory of $3.0m in F2022, $342k in F2021, and $154k in F2020.

Salary Information

Full-time staff: 51

Avg. compensation: $74,487

Top 10 staff salary range:

$350k +
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$300k - $350k
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$120k - $160k
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$80k - $120k
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$40k - $80k
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Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2022

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Comments & Contact

Comments added by the Charity:

Comment on 2022 profile update:

Every year, Hope and Healing International procures approximately $13 million of high value medical equipment, medicines, PPE and hospital supplies. We see this as a smart, strategic activity – enabling us to have more life-changing impact. Using $1 of cash to ship $20 of high-value medical goods.

We consider this procurement a part of our fundraising / resource-raising activity. When we include our total fundraising activity and resources raised, our efficiency score is 15%, and would raise us to a five star charity.

Within Charity Intelligence’s snapshot of our effectiveness, they cite that we send 65% of every dollar to our cause. We believe this misrepresents our contribution to serving children caught in the cycle of poverty and disability. This calculation does not include the $13.4 million of medical equipment and supplies, and food requested by our partners that we sourced and shipped to trusted partners in FY21. We don’t believe there should be a different value placed on sending cash to buy an operating microscope, and sourcing and shipping a new operating microscope. The result, in the field, is the same – children being given the life-changing surgery and medical treatment they require.

We are working with Charity Intelligence to understand the information they need to see in order to convince them of life-changing nature of the eye-opening, leg-straightening, ability-restoring medical and rehabilitative work that we do. We have a growing body of evidence to support the body-healing, heart-healing, life-long impact of our work on the lives of hundreds of thousands of children caught in the cycle of poverty and disability every year.

 

Charity Contact

Website: www.hopeandhealing.org
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Charitable Registration Number: 80340 7956 RR0001