For every dollar donated to CNIB’s urgent guide dog campaign, it spends 52 cents on fundraising

Bonnie Allen, CBC News, January 18, 2023
CNIB Guide Dogs president says you have to invest money to get money. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) began its urgent appeal for donations in late 2020. A charity watchdog says CNIB spends more than half of each dollar raised on fundraising costs, and that its spending on programming is below what’s reasonable for Canadian non-profits. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has been making an urgent appeal for donations to its guide dog program for more than two years to solve what it calls a crisis-level demand. Overall, more than half of what CNIB takes in from donations is spent on fundraising costs, and finding out exactly what proportion goes to the puppies is difficult. Charity Intelligence Canada, a charity watchdog that aims to help Canadians be informed and give intelligently, reviewed CNIB’s online financial statements from 2021. The accounting applies to the entire CNIB organization and not just its guide dog program. It found CNIB collected roughly $29.1 million in donations and spent about $15 million on fundraising costs.