In March 2013 we published the “Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2011”. Now here is Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot for 2010 which will allow those who are interested to compare the 2010 and 2011 snapshots. Download Article
In March 2013 we published the “Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2011”. Now here is Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot for 2010 which will allow those who are interested to compare the 2010 and 2011 snapshots.
The CFC 2013 Conference will be held in Winnipeg. I will be delivering a presentation on dealing with non-qualified donees. In honour of the conference and as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project we have prepared some statistical information…
The Charities Directorate is launching a new Charities Program Update bulletin. It will be sent to the 23,000 subscribers to the Charities Directorate email list. Lots of interesting information and statistics are contained in the Update. Here is the text…
Statistics Canada has recently released donor information for 2011. Every year Stats Can puts out this information and people write about it. Stats Can notes: “Charitable donations reported by taxfilers increased 2.6% from 2010 to just under $8.5 billion in…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2011 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 82,000 of the 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were processed into…
The Charities Directorate has just published a new page which sets out how members of the public can obtain information about registered charities. Here is the link to the CRA page: Here is the text of the CRA page…
Today the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) released its much anticipated report on Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving in Canada. The report discuss “Charitable Donations and Donors in Canada”, “The Regulation of Charities”, “Tax Incentives and their…
Here is an important article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy outlining an initiative to try and have charities electronically file their annual returns in the US and have this information more easily accessible online at no charge. Although Canadian charities…
The T3010 is a great resource on the Canadian charity sector. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2011 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 82,848 of the approximately 86,000 registered…
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I took a look at the CRA website and here are the numbers of Canadian registered charities. Charitable organizations 75,912 Public Foundations 5,130 Private Foundation. 5,218 Total registered charities 86,260
We recently reviewed the private foundations contained on the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return for 2011. In this case we looked at the approximately 500 private foundations on the database who had the greatest total expenditures according to their T3010…
We recently reviewed the private foundations contained on the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return for 2011. In this case we looked at the approximately 500 private foundations on the database who had the greatest total expenditures according to their T3010…
We recently reviewed the T3010 information for 2011. The database was prepared by the Charities Directorate of CRA in September 2012 and covers about 81,000 charities (94% of Canadian registered charities) and their 2011 T3010 returns. Here is the article…
We recently reviewed the T3010 information for 2011. The database was prepared by the Charities Directorate of CRA in September 2012 and covers about 81,000 charities (94% of Canadian registered charities) and their 2011 T3010 returns. Canadian registered charities are…
On November 28, 2012 we will be having the Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute in Toronto. It will be a full day of practical legal and ethical compliance information geared toward charities, professional advisors and those interested in regulatory issues…
[Updated article 2020] One day CRA will look at revising the T3010. Here are some suggestions for additional questions that they may want to ask. In looking at the US form 990 or UK filing requirements it is clear that…
Here is a great article entitled “From Stories to Evidence: How Mining Data Can Promote Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector”. Michael Lenczner and Susan Phillips discuss the importance of the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return data and its uses in…
According to the T3010 for 2010 the total long term investments of Canadian registered charities (captured in line 4140) is $14.7 Billion. This is only long term investments and does not include cash, inventory, land and buildings etc. Keep in…
I am looking forward to being on a panel for the APRA conference in Toronto on Wednesday. The panel is entitled “Focus on Canada’s Non?Profit Sector – Thriving or Just Surviving?” This going to be quite exciting. DAY 1: WEDNESDAY,…
I took a look at the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return statistics on foreign activities by Canadian charities for 2010. The total 2010 amount identified by all charities including gifts-in-kind (GIK) is almost $2.7 billion. 299 charities spent more than…
Here is a list of the CRA Category Codes used to classify Canadian charities. The coding is in many cases of little use. Probably the most useful is the different religious groups. CategoryCode CharityTypeE CharityTypeF DescriptionE DescriptionF 01 Welfare Bien-être…
Statscan has put out some reports recently on charitable giving and volunteering as well as more specific reports on giving by immigrants and employer support of volunteering, Giving and volunteering among Canada’s immigrants by Derrick Thomas Release date: May…