Canadian Charity Statistics

With 86,000 charities in Canada each filing an annual return and many other sources of information there is a large amount of charity statistical information available. It is often not well utilized. Check out Blumberg’s CharityData.ca website for 20 years of information on each Canadian registered charity.  CharityData.ca allows you to search and sort information in over 30 ways and it is the only publicly available place to search the list of over 600,000 directors of Canadian registered charities.  We also provide a large amount of data and statistical information on this website, including our Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector

Snapshot on Political Activities in the Canadian Charity Sector 2013

We have prepared as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project this Snapshot on Political Activities in the Canadian Charity Sector 2013. The Snapshot on Political Activities in the Canadian Charity Sector 2013 will be helpful to those who are interested in…

Largest Canadian Registered Charities by Employment Compensation

About 2.7 million Canadians work for Canadian registered charities. They earn approximately $122 billion per year.  This article takes data from the CRA’s T3010 Registered Charity Information Return and shows the charities that spend the most on employment compensation. Download…

Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2013

We have just released the Blumbergs' Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2013 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project.   The database covers about 83,000 of the 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were processed…

Finance report on tax expenditures and the charitable tax credit

The Department of Finance has released a somewhat in depth report as part its tax evaluation series on “Evaluation of the Federal Charitable Donation Tax Credit“.  It is an interesting report.  If one is interested in tax incentives the reports…

Statistics about giving tell you so much and so little!

Here is an interesting quote from the CCVO newsletter.   “Albertans…more Scrooge than Saint? The recent stats on charitable donations from Statistics Canada placed Alberta close to the top with the second highest median donation. However Maclean's took it one step further and compared…

Blumbergs’ Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012

For those who are interested in the size and scope of the Ontario registered charity sector you may find the Blumbergs’ Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012 to be useful and interesting.   We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data…

CRA Corporate Business Plan sheds light on Charities Directorate

The CRA Corporate Business Plan discusses CRA plans. It provides some interesting information on the Charities Directorate.  Here are some of the highlights: The Charities Directorate has a budget of about $29,154,434.  It has about 333 Full Time Equivalent positions.  Here…

Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015

We are looking forward to presenting the Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015 on April 14, 2015.   For information or to register see: Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015

Blumbergs’ Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012

Here is the Blumbergs' Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012.   For those who are interested in the size and scope of the Ontario registered charity sector you may find it interesting.   We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data…

Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector 2012

I was asked by a friend in Vancouver to prepare a Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector 2012.   Hopefully someone will find it helpful.    Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector include: 11,995…

Latest Update on CNCA continuances from Industry Canada

I recently contacted Industry Canada and they advised that as of July 26, 2014 there have been 5,386 continuances to the new CNCA.   As there are ostensibly 19,000 Federal corporations that are/were under the old Canada Corporations Act there appear…