The Federal Government has released draft legislation today to “enhance the reporting requirements for non-profit organizations to improve transparency in the sector”, Initially, this will be for consultation purposes. This was previously announced in the 2024 Fall Economic Statement. Although…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission for the 2025 Canadian Federal Budget. For those who have been following our law firm’s submissions over the last ten or more years, they have focused on transparency and accountability in the non-profit and charity…
If you want a basic list of all current Canadian registered charities, you can download it from the CRA website. This is useful for groups, such as those who want to incorporate a drop-down menu of registered charities into their…
Here are some of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) decisions that relate to registered charities and RCAAAs: Jewish National Fund of Canada Inc. v. Canada (National Revenue) – 2025 FCA 114 – 2025-06-10 [PDF] Jewish National Fund of Canada Inc. v.…
Here is our article How much did the largest Canadian private foundations spend in 2023?
Here is our article Largest Canadian Registered Charities by Employment Compensation 2023
Here is our note: Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from the Federal government in 2023?
Here is our note Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Provincial Governments in 2023?
Here is our note Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Municipal Governments in 2023?
Here is our note Which Canadian charities spent money on foreign activities in 2023 and how much did they spend?
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2023 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,540 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were…
For perhaps obvious reasons, I don’t have much good to say about the Alberta Government and its premier, Danielle Smith. But something interesting has come from the Alberta Government. The government has launched an Alberta Non-profit Listing Dashboard. Here is…
It is nice to see the CRA publish its Report on the Charities Program 2023 to 2024 on March 20, 2025. This is quite quick, as CRA has been far behind in providing these reports. The 2022/23 report was only…
The CRA has improved the availability of T3010 data on the Open Government website. You can get T3010 data sets from 2009 – 2022. Also, here is a CRA open data – data dictionary for T3010, which you might find…
The disbursement quota (DQ) is the minimum amount a registered charity is required to spend each year on its own charitable activities, on gifts to qualified donees (for example, other registered charities) or on grants to grantees. The disbursement quota…
The CRA has recently begun collecting information on donor advised funds (DAFs) in Canada. We have blogged about it here. These are the questions that have been added: Line 5860 – Did the charity hold any donor advised funds (DAF)…
While there are many ways of looking at the average size of a Canadian charity, typically, size is measured in terms of revenue or assets. This is probably quite unfair as some charities have a huge amount of assets and…
There are many advantages for Canadian charities filing their T3010 online, as we have discussed numerous times. But how many Canadian registered charities are using the online system? We recently received data from the Charities Directorate for the fiscal 2023-2024…
I was very pleased today to see the Report on the Charities Program 2022 to 2023 from the Charities Directorate. Lots of interesting information and statistics from CRA. Here is the CRA report: Report on the Charities Program…
There are so many weird, wonderful, and inaccurate things I hear about Canadian charities, compliance and CRA audits. Anyway nice to see CRA updating information on compliance for Canadian registered charities. CRA also provides further updated statistics below. What is…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission for the 2025 Canadian Federal Budget. For those who have been following our law firm’s submissions over the last ten or more years, they have focused on transparency and accountability in the non-profit and charity sector.Pre-Budget…
Here are 4 new research notes from Carleton University regarding the four heads of charity of Canadian registered charities: Brouard, F., Litalien, M. (2024). Canadian Registered Charities Analysis – An examination of entities aiming for ‘Other purpose beneficial to the…
Here is our article Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to all other Qualified Donees in 2022. The article lists the 1,000 largest gifts from registered charities to other qualified donees in 2022.
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2022 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,972 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were…