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The Top 5 Impact: Toronto Charities list includes the 5 charities operating in Toronto that we have analyzed that have demonstrated the highest value created per dollar spent.
  
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https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/981-the-compass
  https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/165-east-york-learning-experience https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/878-street-health https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/893-toronto-foundation-for-student-success
 
 
Please also view our overall top impact charities:

• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=633&catid=41 Top 10 Impact Charities 2021, Canadian charities with the highest impact programs

As well, we have released 5 additional lists of charities with top impact:

• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=703&catid=37 Top 10 Canadian Impact Charities, charities with high-impact programs in Canada
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=702&catid=37 Top 10 International Impact Charities, Canadian charities with high-impact programs operating overseas
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=701&catid=37 Top 10 Canadian Food Banks, Canadian food banks creating high impact
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=700&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Canadian Youth Charities, charities creating high-impact results for youth in Canada
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=699&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Calgary Charities

 
For more information on our impact assessment please view our social-impact-ratings Social Impact Ratings Methodology or contact Greg Thomson at  mailto:gthomson@charityintelligence.ca gthomson@charityintelligence.ca.
 
 Being entirely funded by donors like you maintains our independence and objectivity to help Canadians be informed in their giving. Canadians donate over $17 billion each year. This giving could achieve tremendous results. We hope Charity Intelligence’s research helps Canadians give better.
 

A growing niche of donors each year is looking for terrific charities to support, particularly those that have measurable, proven, and high impact.
Most charities claim that they “make a difference” in the lives of those they work with. Charity Intelligence’s rigorous analysis measures the difference, or the impact, charities actually make to see how each dollar we give can create the most positive change.
Over $18 billion was given to charities by Canadian donors last year and a significant portion of that is going to less effective charities. Based on our work, up to 40 per cent of donations may be wasted by donors giving based solely on the reputation of the charity or by getting distracted by salaries or administrative costs.
“Some charities create a lot of change with the donations given to them. Others have almost nothing to show for the money coming from donors” says Greg Thomson, Director of Research at Charity Intelligence. “Of the 300 Canadian charities we analysed for impact, these Top 10 have the highest measurable demonstrated impact. Our calculations estimate this group of Top 10 Impact Charities delivers average returns of almost 7 dollars for every dollar donated, compared with overall average returns of only 1-2 dollars.”
The 2022 Top 10 Impact Charities cover frontline charities providing social services in Canada as well as international programs. Many of these charities bring evidence-based programs to developing countries, like clean water and education, which can produce high impact per dollar. Because of this, six of this year’s Top 10 Impact Charities work overseas in developing countries.
 
text-align: left; 2022 Top 10 Impact Charities based on demonstrated impact per dollar donated (listed alphabetically): 

For more information on these charities, please view our  images/2020/Top-10-All-2020.pdf Top 10 Impact Charities Summary.
To meet Canadian donors’ growing demand for impact charities, Ci also released 6 additional lists of charities with top impact:

• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=674&catid=37 Top 10 Canadian Impact Charities, charities with high-impact programs in Canada
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=675&catid=37 Top 10 International Impact Charities, Canadian charities with high-impact programs operating overseas
• Top 10 Impact: Canadian Food Banks, Canadian food banks creating high impact
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=676&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Canadian Youth Charities, charities creating high-impact results for youth in Canada
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=677&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Calgary Charities
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=679&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Toronto Charities

These Top Impact Charities are a breed apart from the over 800 Canadian charities we report on and rate. Charity Intelligence’s star ratings are based on an assessment of 5 objective aspects: 1. donor reporting, 2. financial transparency, 3. funding need, 4. cents to the cause, and 5. demonstrated impact. The 5-Star rated charities based on these metrics are listed in the https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-profiles/top-100-rated-charities-2 2021 100 Highest Rated Charities report.
The demonstrated impact rating is different and looks at only one aspect: for every dollar you donate, what’s the measurable return?
Rather than just heart-warming stories, impact donors feel good about proven results, data quality, and strong counterfactuals. Recently a charity asked, “wouldn’t you agree that making a child smile is priceless?” Our answer is “no”. Impact donors always consider opportunity costs. Money is a scarce resource. If comparing two charities where one charity saves lives for $100,000 each and a second charity saves lives for $20,000 each, impact donors will support the second charity that creates 5 times the impact per dollar. Five lives saved compared with one life saved for the same donation. Impact donors give for the highest change created from their donations.
Some call Charity Intelligence a “charity watchdog”. We see ourselves as research analysts who help Canadian donors give better. Yes, we hold charities to account for the generous support they receive from Canadian donors and expect them to be financially transparent, and yes, we call out exorbitant overhead costs or charities that don’t need more funding. Similarly, each giving season we also call out the best impact charities we’ve found. Charity Intelligence’s reports are independent and objective – charities do not pay for ratings or listing on our website.
Charity Intelligence’s reports and ratings help Canadians give confidently. With greater confidence, people say they gave 32% more money. 
Charity Intelligence’s impact analysis began in 2006 and is an ongoing research project that is generously funded by donors. Our goal is to expand impact analysis to 400 Canadian charities by 2023.
For more information on our impact assessment please view our  social-impact-ratings Social Impact Ratings Methodology or contact Greg Thomson at  mailto:gthomson@charityintelligence.ca gthomson@charityintelligence.ca.
 
 Being entirely funded by donors like you maintains our independence and objectivity to help Canadians be informed in their giving. Canadians donate over $17 billion each year. This giving could achieve tremendous results. We hope Charity Intelligence’s research helps Canadians give better.
 
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The information in this report was prepared by Charity Intelligence Canada and its independent analysts from publicly available information. Charity Intelligence and its analysts have made endeavours to ensure that the data in this report is accurate and complete but accepts no liability.
The views and opinions expressed are to inform donors on matters of public interest. Views and opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, organization, individual, or anyone or anything. Any dispute arising from your use of this website or viewing the material hereon shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to any conflict of law provisions.
“Every investment is an impact investment. The problem is most people don’t know if their investment has positive or negative impact.”

 
Read other reports about the 2021 Top 100 Charities:
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-profiles/top-100-rated-charities-2 The full list of 2021 Top 100 charities
 
If you are the executive director of a charity and are considering approaching Charity Intelligence, please do. HeroWork, StepStones for Youth and Veteran’s Transition Network are all “new new” – first analysed in 2021 and among Ci’s 2021 100 highest rated charities. Our ratings are based on objective measures: your charity must be financially transparent with the audited financial statements for the two most recent years publicly posted on your website. We will not do a new analysis without this financial transparency. We also require an annual report that describes in detail your charity’s strategy, activities, outputs and results. This information is all posted in the https://www.charityintelligence.ca/for-charities For Charities section of our website. We will review the information you submit on a ‘best efforts’ basis as responding to donor requests is our first priority.
 

This 2020 Giving Season is going to be tough. With Covid, and the economic shutdown to flatten the curve, Canadians report they are giving 37% less to charities. This is at the upper end of Imagine Canada’s April forecast that giving could drop by $4.2 billion to $6.2 billion. This decline in giving puts frontline charities under enormous financial stress. At the same time, many frontline charities are facing an unprecedented surge in demand for their services. One thinks immediately of food banks, crisis lines, and shelters, and particularly charities that rely on donations rather than government contracts.
On top of the Covid pandemic, the WE Charity scandal rattled donors’ confidence and was another blow to giving. One lesson Canadians took to heart from the WE Charity scandal was the need to do more homework on the charities they support: 60% said they will do more homework according to Angus Reid survey. 
Charity Intelligence’s Top 100 list is just this necessary homework. These are charities we have analysed and vetted so you can give with greater confidence. Out of all of Canada’s largest charities, these Top 100 highest-rated charities are the elite.
Most giving today is based on a charity’s name recognition, supported by massive fundraising campaigns, often costing tens of millions of dollars. Charity Intelligence takes a different tack, looking behind the gloss, at a charity’s results, costs, and impact. Using data analytics, we find again and again top results at Canadian charities that are typically less well known. Charity Intelligence’s Top 100 list does include some big household names – Doctors Without Borders, World Vision, Terry Fox Foundation – yet many top-rated charities are undiscovered gems.
Many Canadians say they prefer to give to small charities. Included in this 2020 list are 11 small charities. Charity Intelligence defines a ‘small’ charity as having less than $1 million in donations.
This year, with Covid, what we can afford to give matters more than ever. At this critical time with lower donations, our giving can’t be about us feeling good – our giving must do the most good possible to help those in need. Educated and informed donors are changing their giving to donate to different charities. We hope you will consider these top charities.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/11/02/2118598/0/en/Want-to-give-well-this-giving-season-Charity-Intelligence-Announces-Canada-s-Top-100-Highest-Rated-Charities-for-2020.html Media news release
 

BC SPCA Boundless School Indspire Pathways to Education Alberta Wilderness Association Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society The Compass Edmonton’s Food Bank Food for Life Canada Moisson Montreal Greater Vancouver Food Bank Saskatoon Food Bank Calgary Drop-in Eva’s Initiatives Inn from the Cold Our Place Wesley Urban Ministries Boys and Girls Clubs of Winnipeg Discovery House Girls E-Mentorship Innovation MADA Community Center St. Stephen’s Community House George Hull Centre for Children and Families Hospice of Greater Saint John Terry Fox Foundation Chalice Canada CODE Doctors Without Borders Ethiopiaid Canada FINCA Canada IDRF – International Development and Relief Foundation Mennonite Central Committee Canada Operation Eyesight Universal Ryan’s Well War Child Canada World Vision Canada CanadaHelps United Way of Calgary and Area United Way of Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington United Way of Saskatoon & Area McMaster University Ryerson University Universite de Montreal University of British Columbia University of Manitoba University of Toronto University of Western Ontario York University

 
From this short-list of Top 100 Rated Charities, Charity Intelligence is preparing its lists of https://www.charityintelligence.ca/giving-with-impact/top-impact-charities Top 10 Impact Charities that we will release in November 2020. This is Canadian donors’ favourite post on our website. 
If you find Charity Intelligence’s research useful in your giving,  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/charity-intelligence-canada/ please consider donating to support our work. Being entirely funded by donors like you maintains our independence and objectivity to help Canadians be informed in their giving. Canadians donate over $17 billion each year. This giving could achieve tremendous results. We hope Charity Intelligence’s research helps Canadians give better.
 
About Charity Intelligence
Charity Intelligence’s website has reports on over 800 Canadian charities. These charities receive more than $9.7 billion in donations each year, representing an estimated 57% of total Canadian giving. Charity Intelligence’s reports give donors the facts and figures to answer their questions about how charities spend money and the results they achieve. 77% of donors say that reading a Charity Intelligence report increased their confidence in giving and, with greater confidence, they gave 32% more money.
In 2016, Statistics Canada reported that nearly a third of Canadians weren’t giving as much to charities as they could because they had unanswered questions. We hope that by answering donors’ questions with independent reports, we can help Canadian donors give intelligently.
At the same time, some Canadian charities are striving to improve their star ratings. These charities are becoming more transparent and accountable. This makes Canada’s charity sector better for all.
 

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Charity Intelligence 2021 Top 100 Rated Charities 

Charities are listed alphabetically by sector. Click on the charity’s name to read Charity Intelligence’s full report.  
To see images/2021/Charity_Intelligence_2021_Top_100_Highest_Rated_Charities.pdf full details in pdf  
To see the charities that are https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/33-donor-giving/696-new-top-100-charities new to the 2021 Top 100