SEVA 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.
Good
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.
78%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 78 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About SEVA Canada:
Founded in 1982, Seva Canada Society (Seva) works to prevent and reverse blindness in developing countries. An estimated 36 million people around the world are blind, including 19 million children. Seva-supported research has found that most of the world’s blind are women and girls. Seva treats vision issues by offering glasses, medicine, and eye surgery to those in need.
Seva operates in 13 countries: Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo-Brazzaville, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania, and Tibetan areas of China. In F2019, Seva-partner hospitals and eye camps performed 85% of Seva's total surgeries in Nepal. 10% of surgeries were performed in Cambodia and the rest were spread amongst the other countries. Similarly, 85% of people screened were in Nepal.
Seva partners with people in remote areas to create and staff Community Eye Centres. Training sessions help doctors to learn modern surgery procedures to treat glaucoma and cataracts. Most patients pay a small amount for the surgery. The money collected allows the eye centres to provide free care to the poorest patients. Seva Canada does not receive the fees for service because the individual eye centres use them in continued operations.
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Results and Impact
In F2019, Seva-funded eye care programs helped 1,677,758 people. Cataract surgeries were performed on 110,807 people.
People with restored sight have restored dignity, productivity, and independence. Up to 75% of people with visual impairment need help from someone to complete everyday tasks. Restoring sight helps those who are visually impaired, but also improves productivity for caregivers. Children with restored sight can return to school and eventually work. Without these opportunities, they would be unable to escape poverty.
Charity Intelligence has given Seva a Good impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Good

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Finances
Seva Canada is a Medium-sized charity, receiving $2m in donations and special event revenue in F2019. The charity also received donated goods-in-kind worth $4k in F2019, $46k in F2018, and $3k in F2017.
Administrative costs are 9% of revenues and fundraising costs are 13% of donations. For every dollar donated, 78 cents go the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $394k can cover 3.3 months of annual program costs.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Seva Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on June 10, 2020 by Tenzin Shomar.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending June
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2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 8.8% | 12.4% | 10.0% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 13.1% | 18.7% | 15.2% |
Total overhead spending | 21.8% | 31.1% | 25.1% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 27.7% | 20.4% | 23.8% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
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Donations | 1,958,140 | 1,326,139 | 1,461,831 |
Goods in kind | 3,997 | 45,833 | 2,746 |
Special events | 62,383 | 61,183 | 55,108 |
Investment income | 1,329 | 8,995 | 10,434 |
Total revenues | 2,025,849 | 1,442,150 | 1,530,119 |
Program costs - International | 1,425,875 | 1,135,713 | 1,382,228 |
Administrative costs | 177,358 | 177,248 | 151,193 |
Fundraising costs | 264,213 | 259,933 | 229,815 |
Total spending | 1,867,446 | 1,572,894 | 1,763,236 |
Cash flow from operations | 158,403 | (130,744) | (233,117) |
Capital spending | 295 | 3,174 | 9,473 |
Funding reserves | 394,408 | 231,354 | 329,085 |
Note: Ci has reported special event fundraising revenues net of cost of goods sold, decreasing revenues by $3.2k in F2019, $1.3k in F2018, and $5.5k in F2017. Depreciation was removed from administrative costs and listed as a non-cash expense.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
2 |
$40k - $80k |
3 |
< $40k |
1 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2019
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