Frequently Asked Questions

No less than 80 percent of your donation goes to ministry activities, including all expenses that occur within the country your sponsored child is from,  which directly benefit sponsored children. Children and families do not receive cash but instead are recipients of goods and services, carefully designed, delivered or purchased according to their needs. Independent and internal audits of our work are conducted to ensure donor support is being used efficiently and with integrity.

Compassion Canada’s financial statements are available online at Financial Statements .

No. The Canada Revenue Agency states that we must receipt the person that gave the donation.

All donations given through Text to Give for Unite to Fight Poverty are receipted separately through the Mobile Giving Foundation of Canada. For more information, please visit their website here. If you did not receive a tax receipt for your Mobile Giving donation, please email us at info@compassion.ca or call us at 1-800-563-5437.

All donations given through online fundraisers are receipted by email shortly after completing the donation online. If you did not receive your receipt via email shortly after making your donation to an online fundraiser, please email volunteer@compassion.ca.