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SROI Forecast Calculator

Enter your organization's annual figures to estimate the social value your furniture provision service creates. Everything is calculated in your browser.

Before You Start

You will need the figures below for a single 12-month period. You do not need all of them, and the tool tells you what was left out of your result.

Operating expenses for your furniture and household items service.
The value of charitable receipts issued to furniture donors, split into those under $200 per person and those $200 and over.
Volunteer hours, and the hourly rate you would pay someone to do that work.
Clients served, and how many of those live as families.
Individual furniture donors who gave to you.
Clients referred by agencies, and how many came from agencies that provide accommodation.
Avoided emissions, either in tonnes of CO2e or simply the number of items you delivered.

The tool is free. Your figures are saved anonymously and used only for sector-level benchmarks, so the sector gets data no single furniture bank can produce alone.

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Your Organizational Information

Used to personalize your results summary. Fields marked * are required.

Organization name

Contact name Contact email address

Country where your organization serves * Province / Territory / State where your organization serves *

Currency of analysis * Does your organization provide services to your beneficiaries other than furniture and essential household items provision?

Analysis Year

This should match the 12-month period for which you are completing all forecast SROI information.

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Cost Inputs

At least one cost input is needed to calculate an SROI.

Operating expenses for the analysis year All operating expenses for the 12-month period, including staff costs, that relate to your furniture and essential household items provision service. This does not include expenses related to your other services, if applicable. Total market value of furniture donations in the analysis year, under $200 per person per annum The total value of charitable receipts issued to individuals who have donated furniture in the analysis year, where the value of each receipt is below $200. For multiple donations from the same individual, the total amount in the 12-month period should be considered. Total market value of furniture donations in the analysis year, $200 and over per person per annum The total value of charitable receipts issued to individuals who have donated furniture in the analysis year, where the value of each receipt is $200 or above. For multiple donations from the same individual, the total amount in the 12-month period should be considered.

Total number of volunteering hours Hours spent by volunteers only for the furniture and essential household items provision service, if applicable. Gross hourly rate for volunteers The gross hourly rate you would pay in the analysis year for the work done by volunteers, if you were to hire someone instead of a volunteer. For Furniture Bank operating in Toronto, the 2025 value for this was CAD $22.

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Stakeholder and Beneficiary Group Information

An input value for at least one group is needed to calculate an SROI. If you do not have information for a group, leave that section blank and it will not be included.

1. Clients (recipients of furniture)

Total number of individual clients served Every person who lived in a household you furnished during the analysis year, counted individually, including children. If you furnished 300 households averaging 3 people, enter 900. Of those clients, how many live in a family household A subset of the number above, not an addition. If you furnished 900 individuals and 600 live in family households, enter 600.

2. Furniture Donors

Total number of individual furniture donors The total number of individuals or households that donated furniture in the analysis year. This does not include donations from businesses.

3. Social Services Agencies (referral organizations)

Total number of clients (households) referred by social service agencies The number of clients referred to your furniture provision service by social service agencies in the analysis year. Total number of clients (households) referred by social service agencies that provide accommodation facilities for their clients This is the total number of clients that were referred to your furniture provision service in the analysis year by social service agencies (referral agencies) with accommodation facilities.

4. Environment

How do you know your avoided emissions?

Total metric tonnes CO2e avoided by reusing second-hand or unused furniture This corresponds to the furniture delivered in the analysis year. It does not include furniture collected but not delivered.

Total metric tonnes CO2e created from pick up and delivery of furniture This estimation is based on fuel usage for collecting and delivering furniture in the analysis year.

Do not know your tonnes? Enter your fuel usage below and the tool works it out. The result belongs in the emissions created from pickup and delivery field above. It is your emissions created, not your avoided emissions.

Diesel (L) Gasoline (L) Diesel (US Gallons) Gasoline (US Gallons)

Enter fuel above to calculate CO2e.

Forecast SROI

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What this tool will not do

It will not tell you what your clients experienced. It applies Toronto's outcome data to your counts.
It will not survive a social audit. This is a forecast, not an evaluative SROI study of your organization.
It will not let you compare yourself to another furniture bank. Two organizations counting clients differently produce ratios that look comparable and are not.

Do not use this if a funder has asked for measured outcomes or an independent evaluation.

Forecast social return on investment

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Add at least one cost input and one beneficiary group to see your result.

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Social value

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Net value

Where The Value Is Created

Social value by stakeholder group, for the analysis year.

Results Summary

Calculated from the information entered.

Which number to quote. Quote the forecast SROI for the analysis year. Total present value includes value expected to continue into the next two years.

About your data. The calculation runs in your browser. Your figures, country, province or state, and analysis year are saved and added to a sector dataset used ONLY for aggregate reporting. Your organization name, contact name and email are never saved. Nothing is ever published as a named organization's result.

A one-page branded summary you can send to a funder or keep on file.

Results Summary Text

Complete the fields to generate your summary.

This is a forecast estimate produced using validated outcome valuations and assumptions, following Social Value International principles. It is not a substitute for a full evaluative SROI study.

Proxy set: 2025. Tool version 3. Updated 26 August 2026.

Outcomes included in this forecast

These are the outcomes Furniture Bank Toronto measured with its own clients, donors and agency partners. The tool applies that pattern to the counts you entered. It does not tell you what your clients experienced.

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