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2. Big Data = Hawk Vision AJAH fundtracker landscape.ajah.ca Big data
Open data

4. The Opportunity to Build Story
Indigenous Charities: their work
their funders, their impact
Something is going on back there
OK now we can see a little bit
Multiple stories - because it tells us how to do better

5. The Opportunity to See the Indigenous Charitable Sector
We can Describe the Indigenous charitable sector & and who funds it - funding economy
We can Compare to the core charitable sector (Canadian charities that are not universities, schools or hospitals)
We can start to Shape the stories in relationship with foundations and Indigenous communities
We can see how it is doing over time
We can start to see it what is needed and
We can organize to support it

6. What is in the name? “Aboriginal-focused” charities
CRA submission includes one or more of 1,200 key words that could indicate the indigenous nature of the charity’s work
They identify themselves as providing “services to Aboriginal people” as a program area on their annual tax returns
Aboriginal focused charities are about 1% of all core charities
Indigenous people are about 3.74% of Canadians

7. Funders
983 charitable foundations supported Aboriginal- focused charities in 2013
About 10% of Canadian foundations together share assets of close to $1.8B
Funders (823 in 2011)
About 10% of all Canadian Foundations, have assets of close to $1.8B in 2013
1/3 have a local focus, slightly less than 1/3 have a provincial focus and slightly more than 1/3 have a national focus (313, 279, 365)

8. “Aboriginal-focused Charities”
about 1% of core charities in Canada
Likely as many NPOs = 1,700
Number of charities roughly follows # of Indigenous people (Stats Can 2006)

9. Charity Revenues 2013 Indigenous charities $1.6B
By representing the revenues of the Aboriginal-focused charities as a % we can compare them against the % of each kind of revenue in the core charities.
Funds as a % - comparing the sources of total revenues of 1% to the 99% core charities
Aboriginal-focus charities have revenue of about $1.6B 2013
$1.3B FNMI charities vs $74.6B

10. The Good News 2013: + $115M
if you take an average – it would be roughly $12K/charity

11. The Bad News 2013: -$140M
If you took an average it would be roughly $100K/charity

12. 5 Indicators of Financial Health
Relative to the Core Charitable Sector
Are they keeping up?
Growth in numbers
Are they strong?
% administrative expenditure &
rates of employment
Is there at equity?
% of revenue from governments
Are they independent?
% revenue from gifts &
% revenue from fundraising
Are they advocating?
% expenditure on political activity
WE have to find the story in the community to find out if these are the right Q’s – and in the data if these are the rightr measures:
Very perliminary…..

13. Wide Provincial/Territorial Variation in Revenue

14. Opportunity to look more closely: Manitoba
4,392 core charities
77 “Aboriginal-focused”
48 charitable funders

15. 77/847 “Aboriginal-focused” charities
What is in the name?
CRA submission includes one or more of 1,200 key words that could indicate the indigenous nature of the charity’s work
They identify themselves as providing “services to Aboriginal people” as a program area on their annual tax returns
Aboriginal focused charities are about 1% of all core charities
Indigenous people are about 3.74% of Canadians

16. “What is the most important thing to consider when defining an “Indigenous Charity”?