Camfed Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 844988659RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,076,383) as filed with the CRA.
Camfed Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $15M in revenue and $15.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $698K.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.9M in 2020 to $15M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Advancing education in sub-saharan africa by: a) providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of needs based financial assistance to women and girls as well as men and boys to be used to support their education from elementary through secondary school b) training teachers to provide psychosocial support to female as well as male students focused on encouraging them to stay enrolled in school; and c) conducting research on the impact of girls' education on the development of developing nations and publicly disseminating the results of any such studies and undert…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15M | $15.1M | $14.5M | $143K | — | $994K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $921K | $84K | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $14M | $13.3M | $13M | $158K | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $10.6M | $9.9M | $9.8M | $26K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $6.9M | $6.8M | $6.7M | $28K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $698K from 16 charities:
- Pathy Family Foundation$441K
- 60 Million Girls / 60 Millions de Filles$100K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Airlie Foundation$5,000
- Inspired Children & Youth Foundation$4,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$3,036
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,570
- Aspire Change Foundation$2,500
- The Calgary Foundation$1,612
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,121
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$204
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$4
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$789K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dorothy Nyambi (chairperrson); Sandra Spence (executive director); Peggy Woo (treasurer); Kathryn Goodard (secretary); Sharon Barnes-Simmonds (director); Nafisatu Bukari (director); Jennifer Shulman (director); Mary Beck (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Camfed Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844988659RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.