Here is our article 2023 Canadian Federal Budget and its impact on the Canadian charitable sector. Today, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced Budget 2023—A Made-in-Canada Plan: Strong Middle Class, Affordable Economy, Healthy Future for the Liberal Government of Justin…
Corporations Canada will begin issuing to Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) non-profit corporations Notices of Intent to Dissolve if the CNCA non-profit corporations have not filed their corporate Form 4022 – Annual Return (“Annual Return’) in three years in a…
We recently reviewed: How much did the largest Canadian private foundations spend in 2021 on charitable activities or gifts to qualified donees according to their T3010 filings. We also noted the amount expended on charitable activities and gifts to qualified donees…
Here is our note: Which Canadian charities spent money on foreign activities in 2021 and how much did they spend? Canadian registered charities spent over $3.8 billion on direct foreign activities (not including gifts to qualified donees), and in this note…
Here is the Blumbergs Snapshot of the Ontario 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…
Here is the Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 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 83,771 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities…
We made an informal ATIP request for the previously released briefing notes (available by request from ATIP here) from the Minister of International Development’s Roundtable with Humanitarian Organizations, which took place on January 13, 2021. The purpose of the meeting…
Today, the Federal government introduced a new Bill C-41, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. This bill would make a change to the Criminal code and its anti-terrorism provisions and if an…
Just read this article from the Globe and Mail entitled “Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation returning donation with link to China“. The first paragraph states: A non-profit foundation dedicated to the memory of Pierre Elliott Trudeau is returning a large financial…
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a request by Human Concern International to postpone the suspension that CRA had imposed upon them. Then Human Concern International made a leave to appeal application to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court…
A Saskatoon charity that provides supportive living assistance to vulnerable populations has had a number of governance problems over the last few years and has been in and out of court over various issues. It is now in the news…
Canada has a unique and generous system to help foreign universities fundraise in Canada. Unfortunately, most foreign universities are not aware of this system. Here is our article on Foreign Universities Applying to be Registered Universities outside Canada: What we…
I just took a look at the Corporations Canada corporate profile for the Canadian Soccer Association. (PDF for Canadian Soccer Association corporate profile report) The Canadian Soccer Association is not filing financial statements with Corporations Canada as required by the…
If you are a Federal non-profit corporation under the CNCA, then you can search your organization’s corporate profile at Search for A Federal Corporation. It will show you what documents have been filed with Corporations Canada. At the same place,…
So far, there is nothing too definitive from the CRA on their approach to the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“ONCA”) and changes that will be made to governing documents to bring Ontario non-profit corporations into alignment with ONCA. Unlike the…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…
We received this message from the Charities Directorate about applications for the Community Services Recovery Fund: The Canada Revenue Agency is pleased to share the following message with you on behalf of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). On January…
I have learnt that one sometimes needs patience when dealing with the Federal government. For example, when you put in an ATIP request, they have 30 days to respond. Thirty days may seem like a long time, but I got…
Here is our note: Which Canadian charities spent money on foreign activities in 2020 and how much did they spend? Canadian registered charities spent over $4 billion on direct foreign activities (not including gifts to qualified donees), and in this…
The CBC recently had a report, “Manitoba investors, 2 charities, out over $1M after being misled into investing in Bolivian bank“. The media does not cover investments of charities that much, so it was interesting. Charities have assets of around…
I recently took a look at ChatGPT and how it deals with charity law questions. The results were interesting. Sometimes it did a good job, and other times, it failed miserably. For example, I asked ChatGPT, “How to explain charity…
There are many questions and issues with the new qualifying disbursement and anti-avoidance rules. One of those questions related to reporting and the T3010. CRA has put out a note today on this. We are generally suggesting to organizations to…
The new Qualifying Disbursement rules will give some charities (with certain objects) some more flexibility when dealing with non-qualified donees in Canada and outside of Canada. At the same time, the anti-avoidance provision passed at the same time will make…
The Government has provided the Canadian Red Cross, United Way Canada and Community Foundations of Canada with a total of $400 million to create a Community Services Recovery Fund. The fund is available to both charities and non-profits that are…