Seva Canada is a top-rated 5-star and high-impact charity. The charity has an above-average results reporting score. Its overhead spending is within Ci’s reasonable range, and it has reserve funds to cover program costs for a year and two months.

Founded in 1982, Seva Canada Society (Seva) works to prevent and reverse blindness in developing countries. An estimated 43 million people around the world are blind. Seva reports that 30 million children experience some form of visual impairment, and two million are blind. Seva-supported research has found that more of the world’s blind are women and girls. Women and girls are 12% more likely to have vision loss and 8% more likely to be blind. Seva treats vision issues by offering glasses, medicine, and eye surgeries (mainly cataract and glaucoma) to those in need.

Seva operates in 10 countries: Burundi, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Francophone West Africa, Guatemala, India, Madagascar, Nepal, and Tanzania.

In F2022, Seva-partner hospitals and eye camps performed 76,281 cataract surgeries (53% women and 47% men) and 10,914 glaucoma and other surgeries. Seva also provided 9,604 people with prescription glasses.

Seva partners with people in remote areas to create and staff Community Eye Centres. Training sessions help doctors learn modern surgery procedures to treat glaucoma and cataracts. In F2022, three ophthalmologists received retina and glaucoma training, two received cataract surgical training, and one doctor received ophthalmology training. Also, 20 nurses completed ophthalmic specialty training, and 40 ophthalmic assistants completed a three-year training program.

Seva Canada received $1.9m in donations and special event revenue in F2022.

Administrative costs are 9% of revenues (less investment income), and fundraising costs are 15% of donations. This results in overhead spending of 24%. For every dollar donated, 76 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.

The charity has reserve funds of $1.4m. It can cover around a year and two months of its annual program costs with its reserve funds.

Charity Intelligence has sent this profile update to Seva Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on June 1, 2023 by Kiara Andrade.