Western Cape nonprofit transfers and reported spending

The Western Cape Department of Social Development publishes a list of nonprofit funding for each fiscal year. Its annex separates the amount transferred from the amount reported spent by the recipient. The same department publishes both columns. The following comparisons cover that department’s published lists from April 2024 through March 2026.

What the department reported

The first table in each annex lists transfers made within the fiscal year. A separate final table covers transfers budgeted for, some of which were unpaid. The row counts and sums here use the first table. One row in 2024/25 records zero, which stays in the count.

Two extraction methods agreed on the page, program and amount columns for all 2,196 detail rows. A transferee label can repeat across programs and periods. Counts of names in the downloads describe the text in the annex, and legal-entity matches require registration evidence.

Transfers by program

2024/25 programs (13)

Program	Rows	Transferred	Reported spent	Printed subtotal
2.2 Older Persons	298	ZAR 227,580,597	ZAR 227,580,597	PDF page 4
2.3 Persons with Disabilities	211	ZAR 152,325,835	ZAR 152,321,835	PDF page 7
2.5 Social Relief	5	ZAR 8,000,000	ZAR 8,000,000	PDF page 7
3.2 Care and Services to Families	146	ZAR 101,350,999	ZAR 101,350,999	PDF page 9
3.3 Child Care and Protection	116	ZAR 220,024,959	ZAR 220,024,959	PDF page 10
3.4 Early Childhood Development and Partial Care	77	ZAR 10,710,654	ZAR 10,710,654	PDF page 11
3.5 Child and Youth Care	48	ZAR 123,514,001	ZAR 123,514,001	PDF page 12
4.2 Social Crime Prevention	15	ZAR 14,518,000	ZAR 14,518,000	PDF page 12
4.3 Victim Empowerment	44	ZAR 66,504,000	ZAR 66,504,000	PDF page 13
4.4 Substance Abuse	46	ZAR 47,877,074	ZAR 47,877,074	PDF page 13
5.3 Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) and Support for NPOs	1	ZAR 280,000	ZAR 280,000	PDF page 13
5.4 Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods	55	ZAR 46,261,452	ZAR 46,261,452	PDF page 14
5.6 Youth Development	30	ZAR 12,174,998	ZAR 12,174,998	PDF page 14

2025/26 programs (12)

Program	Rows	Transferred	Reported spent	Printed subtotal
2.2 Older Persons	295	ZAR 262,603,315	ZAR 262,603,315	PDF page 4
2.3 Persons with Disabilities	221	ZAR 175,745,537	ZAR 175,745,537	PDF page 7
2.5 Social Relief	5	ZAR 8,478,000	ZAR 8,478,000	PDF page 7
3.2 Care and Services to Families	144	ZAR 105,686,713	ZAR 105,686,713	PDF page 9
3.3 Child Care and Protection	114	ZAR 255,785,287	ZAR 255,785,287	PDF page 11
3.4 Early Childhood Development and Partial Care	76	ZAR 11,220,927	ZAR 11,220,927	PDF page 12
3.5 Child and Youth Care	51	ZAR 133,946,842	ZAR 133,945,000	PDF page 13
4.2 Social Crime Prevention	19	ZAR 17,788,554	ZAR 17,788,554	PDF page 13
4.3 Victim Empowerment	45	ZAR 73,125,446	ZAR 73,125,446	PDF page 13
4.4 Substance Abuse	49	ZAR 50,946,000	ZAR 50,946,000	PDF page 14
5.4 Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods	55	ZAR 50,843,415	ZAR 50,843,415	PDF page 15
5.6 Youth Development	30	ZAR 15,711,000	ZAR 15,711,000	PDF page 15

Where printed totals differ

All 12 program subtotals in 2025/26 agree with their detail rows. Two programs account for the differences in 2024/25.

• 2024/25, 2.3 Persons with Disabilities · Reported spent rows sum to ZAR 152,321,835. The annex prints ZAR 152,325,835.
• 2024/25, 3.5 Child and Youth Care · Transferred rows sum to ZAR 123,514,001. The annex prints ZAR 123,513,999.Reported spent rows sum to ZAR 123,514,001. The annex prints ZAR 123,513,999.

The 2024/25 annex gives a separate adjustment note on page 5 and records recovery the following April. The 2025/26 annex’s total spending is lower than transfers by ZAR 1,842, with an April 2026 return recorded on page 12. Both transactions stay in the reported fiscal period.

The department’s annual financial statements use thousands of rand. They print total actual nonprofit transfers of 1,031,123 thousand rand for 2024/25 and 1,161,880 thousand rand for 2025/26. The annex amounts retain their original whole-rand units. The two reports leave a small difference between the 2025/26 annex total and the audited statement’s displayed amount.

One home-care project for older people

Each annex has a line for the Umelwane Project under the Older Persons program. Ikamva Labantu describes its home-based support for older people in Cape Town. Its audited statements and the historical national directory both give the trust name and registration 082-581.

• 2024/25 Umelwane line · ZAR 573,340 transferred, ZAR 573,340 reported spent.
• 2025/26 Umelwane line · ZAR 602,007 transferred, ZAR 602,007 reported spent.

Note 8 of the trust’s audited accounts reports all designated local grants together, at ZAR 15,417,294 for the year ending February 2025 and ZAR 16,478,662 for the year ending February 2026. The annex uses March year-ends and a project line. Confirming this payment in the trust’s records would require grant-level entries for the matching period.

Statistics South Africa’s Table 12 counts 818,398 Western Cape residents aged 60 or older in Census 2022. That figure describes the whole province. The funded project serves part of Cape Town and the sources give no count of eligible residents across its catchment.

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Original annexes and accounts remain available at the source links. Data from the Western Cape Department of Social Development, with summaries and source coordinates by Charitology. Western Cape Government copyright and reuse terms.