Watoto 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.
B-
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
Fair
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.
86%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 86 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Watoto Canada:
Founded in 1984, Watoto Canada was formed through the Watoto Church, a community-focused church in Uganda. Watoto Canada currently works in Uganda and South Sudan to raise orphans, empower women, and rescue babies and child soldiers. Watoto has four main programs: Watoto Villages, Baby Watoto, Neighbourhood, and Girls in School.
Watoto believes that when orphaned and vulnerable children are placed in a loving family environment with a mother and siblings, they find a place that they can call home. Watoto Villages are clusters of nine houses and provide all the essentials of a basic home. Each family is made up of a mother and eight Watoto children. Watoto provided a loving family, a home, an education, food, and medical care to 3,277 children in F2020. 164 of these children were new to the villages that year.
Baby Watoto helps abandoned babies and toddlers aged 0 to 2, by placing them with a nanny. Each nanny cares for 4 babies. The babies come to Watoto from hospitals, local authorities, child protection units, ‘good Samaritans,’ and other organizations. Watoto Canada reports that in F2020, Baby Watoto cared for 162 babies, 34 of which were newly rescued.
Watoto’s Neighbourhood program helps vulnerable women in the areas of housing, healthcare support, employment, and education for their children. In F2020, Watoto provided 1,178 women with discipleship, business skills training, and an opportunity for employment.
The Keep a Girl in School program gives out menstrual supplies so that girls can go to school while on their period. It also provides “Godly sexual education to girls and boys—teaching young boys to respect and protect their female classmates and reminding girls that they matter and their bodies are their own.” This program expanded from 45 to 56 schools in early F2020. During covid-19 it continued giving out menstrual supplies at community centres, and worked with 7,300 girls on discipleship and counselling in virtual sessions.
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Results and Impact
Watoto reports that in F2020, it had 365 kids attending university. 34 Watoto students graduated university in F2020.
Baby Watoto reports that it rescued 34 babies in F2020.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of Watoto’s results and impact.
Charity Intelligence has given Watoto a Fair impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Fair

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Finances
Watoto Canada received $5.1m in donations in F2020. Administrative costs are 14% of revenues (excluding investment income) and the charity reports no fundraising costs. This results in total overhead costs of 14%. For every dollar donated, 86 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $824k can cover two months of annual program costs.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Watoto Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on August 30, 2021 by Asha McMullin.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending December
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2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 13.6% | 14.1% | 13.0% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Total overhead spending | 13.6% | 14.1% | 13.0% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 18.8% | 15.9% | 14.2% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
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Donations | 5,095 | 5,917 | 6,004 |
Government funding | 39 | 0 | 0 |
Business activities (net) | 47 | 182 | 168 |
Investment income | 11 | 20 | 7 |
Total revenues | 5,193 | 6,118 | 6,178 |
Program costs - International | 4,378 | 5,246 | 5,236 |
Administrative costs | 706 | 859 | 804 |
Fundraising costs | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other costs | 12 | 9 | 24 |
Total spending | 5,096 | 6,114 | 6,064 |
Cash flow from operations | 96 | 4 | 114 |
Capital spending | (10) | 27 | 93 |
Funding reserves | 824 | 835 | 745 |
Note: Ci reported sales revenues net of direct expenses in business activities, decreasing total revenue and expenses by $26k in F2020, $75k in F2019, and $77k in F2018.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
1 |
$40k - $80k |
3 |
< $40k |
4 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2020
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