In October 2013 there were only 1800 continuances according to Industry Canada from the old CCA to the new CNCA. That number has now jumped to 4175 corporations by May 31, 2014 and is probably higher over the last 5 weeks. That…
We have just released the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2012. The Canadian charity sector has grown again. The Canadian charity sector is a vital part of Canadian society and economy with revenue of over $223 billion and expenditures of…
The budget had a number of interesting proposals – perhaps my favourite was improving the pay of personal support workers (PSW). Many who even wanted an election liked some of the aspects of the budget and hopefully one day some…
I recently requested numbers from CRA on abusive charity gifting tax schemes. The number are trending down. 2006 was the highest at $1.3 billion. 2011 was $299 million. 2012 was $273,000. 2013 preliminary numbers are $100,000 but as we know…
Here is the Blumbergs' List of Canada Corporations Act non-profits that need to continue to the CNCA. The federal government as part of its Open Data initiative provides a complete list of Federal corporations (for-profit and non-profit) in XML format. We…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2012 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data to look at only registered charities based in Alberta. …
The CRA has updated its “media kit” and specifically the facts and figures section. Here is some of the information from the CRA website: Charities facts and figures The number of registered charities continued to grow in 2013. As of…
I have stopped caring about the numbers from Stats Can on charitable giving because they are so out of whack with reality. I think that the note to reader is more important than the numbers. If you would…
Here is the list of the Ontario non-profit corporations under the Ontario Corporations Act. There are 59,605 Ontario corporations on the list. The list is 1084 pages long. Some of the Ontario corporations are active and some are inactive. We…
Here are some interesting numbers from the Charities Directorate. 4,456 applications and 2060 of them are registered/reregistered. Most applications are either returned for incomplete information, denied, withdrawn or abandoned. It just reiterates the importance of carefully preparing any charity application…
The Charities Directorate just posted an important message which provides an update on the Charities Directorate activities. There is discussion of technology, guidances, CNCA, compliance activities but most importantly extensive discussion of political activities. Here is a link to the…
The CRA has just released its Non-Profit Organization Risk Identification Project Report. The relatively short report makes for interesting reading. It deals with the 80,000 or so non-profits that are not registered charities. This will have an impact on groups…
Today Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced the Canadian Federal Budget 2014. The budget had a large number of provisions dealing with non-profits and charities. Here are some excerpts from the Federal Budget in one PDF document. Overall I was…
We recently reviewed the T3010 information for 2012 to see how many charities identify themselves as doing work that relates to the environment. When we reviewed the T3010 about 1150 registered charities identify themselves as carrying on some work in…
We recently reviewed the T3010 information for 2012. We looked at government funding and specifically which Canadian registered charities received the most funds from municipal governments. Please review my caveats at the end about the reliability and usage of T3010…
We recently looked at government funding and specifically which Canadian registered charities received the most funds from provincial governments in 2012. Most government funding is from the provincial level of government and therefore provincial funding is vital for the Canadian…
I recently compiled a list of which Canadian charities received funds from the Canadian Federal Government. Here is the list which includes all Canadian registered charities that received over $500,000 in funds from the Federal Government. Which Charities Received the…
We recently reviewed the 2012 T3010 Registered Charity Information Returns for largest inter charity gifts. Here is a list of all gifts over $500,000 from the 2012 T3010. Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to other Qualified Donees – 2012
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2011 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. We provided an overview of the whole charity sector in the Blumbergs’ Charity Sector Snapshot 2011. We have taken a…
So far the CRA 2013 database has about 7900 charities on it. There are in total approximately 86,000 Canadian charities who will file their T3010s. Therefore, less than 10% of the 2013 T3010 forms have been filed and inputted into…
The Ontario government has released a report “Profile of Ontario Not-for-Profit and Charitable Organizations” based on some telephone and internet polling. One question on page 64 was interesting. “What should be the provincial government’s top two priorities when it comes…
The short answer is that no one really knows. I asked Industry Canada to comment on this “The number of CCA corporations is commonly said to be 19000. It is actually about 25,000 on the rolls of IC but some…
I recently received updated numbers from Industry Canada on the CNCA. they show some progress but a lot more needs to be done. Here is what Industry Canada told me: How many CCA corporations have moved over to the new…
The US National Centre for Charitable Statistics has some good cautions on the use of US data Form 990 data that I recently noted. Similar issues apply here in Canada with the T3010 so I have reproduced the sections below.…