Here is the Blumbergs Snapshot of the Quebec Charity Sector 2021.
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2021 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 30,354 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were processed into CRA’s Charity Listing database by February 2023.
Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs Snapshot of the Quebec Charity Sector 2021 include:
- 15,594 Quebec registered charities filed their T3010 out of approximately 86,000 charities in Canada
- $71 billion in total revenue for Quebec charities and total expenditures of $67.5 billion
- Government revenue totaled $53.4 billion including from the federal government ($2.2 billion), provincial governments ($49.4 billion) and municipal/regional governments ($1.8 billion). In total, government is approximately 75.2% of revenue of the whole charity sector in Quebec.
- 14,324 identified themselves as active and 1,084 as inactive
- 3,565 made gifts to other charities or qualified donees during their 2021 fiscal year
- Quebec charities spent over $552.2 million outside of Canada
- 33 Quebec charities received funds from Global Affairs Canada
- 704 identified having contractual relationships with foreign intermediaries, 77 charities identified that employees conducted activities outside of Canada and 296 had volunteers conducting foreign activities
- $158.9 million was received by Quebec charities from outside of Canada
- 8,650 identified having employment expenses while 6,893 did not have any employment expenses
- $40.3 billion was spent by Quebec charities on salaries and other compensation expenditures
- $2.2 billion in official donation receipts were issued by Quebec registered charities