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

Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2012

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…

Latest statistics on “abusive charity gifting tax schemes”

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…

Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Alberta Charity Sector 2012

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.  …

Applying for registration and your chances of success

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  Most applications are either returned for incomplete information, denied, withdrawn or abandoned.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…

2014 Federal Budget and its Impact on Canadian Charities

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…

Who are the Canadian environmental charities?

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…

Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2011

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…

A caution on using charity financial data

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.…