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Charity Intelligence Canada
Charity Intelligence Canada is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization which posts assessments of the finances and impacts of Canadian charities on its website. Founded in 2007 by former equity analyst Kate Bahen, it uses unconventional methodologies drawn from Bahen's stock market background.
Bahen has actively and successfully promoted Charity Intelligence's profile in the news, prominently alleging wrongdoing by several mainstream charities and facing questioning before the Canadian Parliament.
Charity Intelligence was launched in 2008 to research charities and advise donors on charitable giving. In addition to providing advice, Charity Intelligence distributes clients' money to selected charities, handling $442,000 in donor cash transactions in 2010.
As of November 2011, Charity Intelligence had two staff members working from a condominium in Downtown Toronto, having declared $207,000 in operating costs for the previous year. By 2020, Charity Intelligence's staff had grown to about four or five members, two of which, managing director Kate Bahen and director of research Greg Thomson, also sat alongside Graeme Hepburn on its three-member board of directors.
Charity Intelligence created its "Top 100 Charities" database when an early client donated $40,000 after asking why they didn't already have one. In November 2019, MoneySense magazine used data from Charity Intelligence and from the Canada Revenue Agency to compile its own top 100 charities to donate to in 2020.
Organizations that have received a high ranking have quoted and linked back to Charity Intelligence's website in their press releases and fund-raising efforts, as well as to promote partnerships with for-profit enterprises.
Among Charity Intelligence's most consistently favoured non-profits has been French Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberté's One Drop Foundation, which promotes clean water and sells tickets for Laliberté's for-profit enterprise Cirque du Soleil. In March 2015, One Drop and Cirque du Soleil leveraged Charity Intelligence's endorsement to partner with American multinational conglomerate Colgate-Palmolive.
Charity Intelligence has ranked the International Development and Relief Foundation, which funds projects in Gaza and Afghanistan in accordance with Islamic principles, among its top 100 Canadian charities. Charity Intelligence distanced itself from the Muslim Association of Canada, which has been accused of links to the Muslim Brotherhood, calling it "not financially transparent". Responding to an editorial by the Muslim Association of Canada's Abdul Nakus, Charity Intelligence denied accusations of anti-Muslim bias on its part or that of the Canada Revenue Agency.
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Charity Intelligence Canada
Charity Intelligence Canada is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization which posts assessments of the finances and impacts of Canadian charities on its website. Founded in 2007 by former equity analyst Kate Bahen, it uses unconventional methodologies drawn from Bahen's stock market background.
Bahen has actively and successfully promoted Charity Intelligence's profile in the news, prominently alleging wrongdoing by several mainstream charities and facing questioning before the Canadian Parliament.
Charity Intelligence was launched in 2008 to research charities and advise donors on charitable giving. In addition to providing advice, Charity Intelligence distributes clients' money to selected charities, handling $442,000 in donor cash transactions in 2010.
As of November 2011, Charity Intelligence had two staff members working from a condominium in Downtown Toronto, having declared $207,000 in operating costs for the previous year. By 2020, Charity Intelligence's staff had grown to about four or five members, two of which, managing director Kate Bahen and director of research Greg Thomson, also sat alongside Graeme Hepburn on its three-member board of directors.
Charity Intelligence created its "Top 100 Charities" database when an early client donated $40,000 after asking why they didn't already have one. In November 2019, MoneySense magazine used data from Charity Intelligence and from the Canada Revenue Agency to compile its own top 100 charities to donate to in 2020.
Organizations that have received a high ranking have quoted and linked back to Charity Intelligence's website in their press releases and fund-raising efforts, as well as to promote partnerships with for-profit enterprises.
Among Charity Intelligence's most consistently favoured non-profits has been French Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberté's One Drop Foundation, which promotes clean water and sells tickets for Laliberté's for-profit enterprise Cirque du Soleil. In March 2015, One Drop and Cirque du Soleil leveraged Charity Intelligence's endorsement to partner with American multinational conglomerate Colgate-Palmolive.
Charity Intelligence has ranked the International Development and Relief Foundation, which funds projects in Gaza and Afghanistan in accordance with Islamic principles, among its top 100 Canadian charities. Charity Intelligence distanced itself from the Muslim Association of Canada, which has been accused of links to the Muslim Brotherhood, calling it "not financially transparent". Responding to an editorial by the Muslim Association of Canada's Abdul Nakus, Charity Intelligence denied accusations of anti-Muslim bias on its part or that of the Canada Revenue Agency.