Cameras For Girls
Charitable organizationOrganizations relieving poverty·PO BOX 163 · MANILLA, ON · K0M 2J0·BN 715593075RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
Cents to cause T1
54¢
of each dollar spent, to programs
Operating overhead T1
45%
typical range 5–35%
Reserves T1
—
not in this filing
Revenue T1
$81K
not reviewed by an analyst (Charity Intelligence)
— means the filing doesn't include the lines needed; details and sources below.·How to read these figures
Common questions
How do I donate to Cameras For Girls?
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Is Cameras For Girls a registered charity?
Per CRA records, it filed a F2024 T3010 return under charity number 715593075RR0001. Registration status can change, so check the CRA charities listing for its current status. Only a currently registered charity can issue an official donation receipt.
Where is Cameras For Girls located?
Per its F2024 T3010, its address on file is PO BOX 163, MANILLA, ON, K0M 2J0. Source.
What does Cameras For Girls do?
In its own words, from its F2024 T3010 filing: "Cameras For Girls pursues Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Africa using photography as our catalyst. We provide women who face gender-based barriers to employment with a camera to keep and a 4-phase photography storytelling and business-skills curriculum to support their goals of becoming paid journalists…" Full program description.
How much of Cameras For Girls's spending goes to programs?T1
Per its F2024 T3010, 54¢ of each dollar it spent went to programs (self-reported, not independently verified). Full figures.
How big is Cameras For Girls?T1
Its last-reported revenue was $81K (F2024), which places it in Charity Compass's under $1M revenue band, alongside 27,629 other operating charities.
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
Cameras For Girls pursues Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Africa using photography as our catalyst. We provide women who face gender-based barriers to employment with a camera to keep and a 4-phase photography storytelling and business-skills curriculum to support their goals of becoming paid journalists and photographers in male-dominated spaces. To date 189 young women have graduated from the program and 80% now have full-time paid work in the male-dominated media industry. We also have our Online Learning Hub supporting 2 000+ women across Africa.
New programs
The Train the Trainer program launched in Uganda in June 2024 training 5 former students in Uganda to be paid trainers with Cameras For Girls to help us build our sustainability in Uganda.
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure. New to these terms? Read what cents to the cause, overhead and reserves mean.
54¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 54¢ of each dollar spent went to programs. The rest ran the organization and raised money; higher is not automatically better.
Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities; 89¢ among those its size (under $1M).
this charity 54¢ · sector median 89¢ · all 55,155 computed charities
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
45%
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
—
Not reported in this filing: the return leaves out the lines this figure needs, so we show nothing rather than an estimate.
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$81K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)37%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
0%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Where the money comes from
Shares of last-reported revenue, per its F2024 T3010. Self-reported; not independently verified.
Receipted donationsT1
37%
T3010 4500 ÷ 4700
GovernmentT1
0%
T3010 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700
Other revenueT1
63%
T3010 remainder ÷ 4700
Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2021–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-31 | $10K | 40¢ | 60% | — |
| 2022-12-31 | $55K | 70¢ | 30% | — |
| 2023-12-31 | $62K | 57¢ | 43% | — |
| 2024-12-31 | $81K | 54¢ | 45% | — |
| trend |
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From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · ✱ = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 819 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.
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Board of directors
6 directors reported · 6 of 6at arm's length
- SACCO DI MARZIO, CRISTINABOARD MEMBERarm's length
- MCKAY, KELSIEBOARD MEMBERarm's length
- WILCZEK, ADRIANBOARD MEMBERarm's length
- SALIU, KEMI MBOARD MEMBERarm's length
- Singh, DeborahBoard Chairarm's length
- Fakirani, Salimarm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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