Orbis Canada is a 3-star financially transparent charity with a Fair demonstrated impact rating. It has a B+ results reporting grade, which is above average. For every dollar donated to the charity, 50 cents are available to go to the cause. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range.

Founded in 1984, Orbis Canada (Orbis) is a fundraising arm of Orbis International – an international aid charity active in 197 countries. Orbis both trains vision care professionals and provides ophthalmic care to rural communities in need. According to the charity, every dollar invested in blindness prevention sees $4 worth of economic returns. The charity also states that of the 1.1 billion people suffering from vision loss, 90% live in low-income countries and 55% are women or girls. The charity’s core program is its on the ground eye care community services. Orbis also runs the Cybersight and Flying Eye Hospital training programs. It spent $355k on its programs in the fiscal year ending December 2022 (2022).

Core programs include various community services to those suffering from vision loss. These include surgeries, eyeglass prescriptions, eye exams, and infection treatments. In 2022, Orbis International prescribed 92,000 eyeglasses and completed over 2,500,000 vision tests. The charity also supported over 400 international health facilities in 2022.

Flying Eye Hospital is an eye doctor training program active across six Caribbean countries as well as Bolivia, Peru, and Chile. This program offers both virtual and in-person training. According to the charity, it trained 46 students in the Caribbean and nearly 50 students in the aforementioned South American countries. Orbis completed a total of 11 training sessions in 2022.

Cybersight is both a virtual training program and case management system established by Orbis International. This program is an information repository that tracks both patients and eye care doctors affiliated with Orbis. In 2022, the charity registered nearly 77,000 eye care doctors and trained over 18,000 students through the Cybersight system. The charity also remotely managed 2,100 patient cases through Cybersight.

In 2022, Orbis Canada received $1.4m in donations. This is a 23% decrease from $1.8m in donations in 2021. The charity previously received emergency wage government subsidies in 2021 and 2020, but did not receive any government funding in 2022. Administrative costs are 14% of revenues and fundraising costs are 37% of donations. This results in 50% total overhead spending, meaning that for every dollar donated, 50 cents are available to go to the cause. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range.

In 2022, Orbis Canada spent $34k and $355k on Canadian and international program costs which make up 3% and 26 of revenues, respectively. The charity also had a $268k cash surplus in 2022.

At the end of 2022, Orbis Canada had $1.1m in reserve funds (cash and investments) which covers 282% or two years and ten months of its annual program spending.

Profile updated by Julian Dranitsaris on August 15, 2024. Comments and corrections may be forthcoming.