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The Top 10 Canadian Impact Charities list includes the 10 charities operating programs in Canada that we have analyzed that have demonstrated the highest value created per dollar spent.
  
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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=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 Impact: 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
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=698&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Toronto 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.
 
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“Every investment is an impact investment. The problem is most people don’t know if their investment has positive or negative impact.”

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 have the most bang for the buck.
$17 billion was given to charities by Canadian donors last year and a significant portion of that is wasted, going to the wrong 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 260 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 seven dollars for every dollar donated, compared with average returns of 1-2 dollars.”
The 2020 Top 10 Impact Charities cover frontline charities providing social services in Canada as well as international programs. Many of these programs bring evidence-based programs to developing countries, like clean water and education, which can produce high impact per dollar. Because of this, seven of this year’s Top 10 Impact Charities work overseas in developing countries.
 
text-align: left; 2020 Top 10 Impact Charities based on demonstrated impact per dollar donated (listed alphabetically): 

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                                                                   

 
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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A special welcome to 20 charities that make Charity Intelligence’s Top 100 list for the first time. These charities have worked hard to improve their accountability and transparency. And a warm welcome back to five charities that are returning to the Top 100 list in 2021. 
You can click on the Charity’s name (link in blue bold font) to learn more about its work. 

 
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.