Here is the Blumbergs Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Ontario 2020.
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2020 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 30,540 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were processed into CRA’s Charity Listing database by August 2022.
Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2020 include:
- 30,540 Ontario registered charities filed their T3010 out of approximately 86,000 charities in Canada
- $123.7 billion in total revenue for Ontario charities and total expenditures of $115.2 billion.
- Government revenue totaled $72.4 billion including from the federal government ($5.4 billion), provincial governments ($59.8 billion) and municipal/regional governments ($7.2 billion). In total government is approximately 58.5% of revenue of the whole charity sector in Ontario.
- 28,370 identified themselves as active and 1607 as inactive
- 12,441 made gifts to other charities or qualified donees during their 2020 fiscal year
- Ontario charities spent over $3 billion outside of Canada
- 78 Ontario charities received funds from Global Affairs Canada
- 1390 identified having contractual relationships with foreign intermediaries, 498 charities identified that employees conducted activities outside of Canada and 953 had volunteers conducting foreign activities.
- $2.1 billion was received by Ontario charities from outside of Canada
- 15,380 identified having employment expenses, while 15,005 did not have any employment expenses
- $65.9 billion was spent by Ontario charities on salaries and other compensation expenditures
- $10.4 billion in official donation receipts were issued by Ontario registered charities