The Charities Directorate of the Canada Revenue Agency occasionally releases information on the size of the charity sector using the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return. Here are two interesting charts which looks at 2009 and 2010 charity filings in terms…
I presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance today along with 5 other witnesses. There was a lively discussion of transparency, cross border philanthropy, tax incentives and preventing abuse of registered charities. Here is a copy of…
The Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) is holding hearings on tax incentives for charitable donations. Here is the Finance Committee: Chair – James Rajotte Vice-Chairs – Scott Brison, Peggy Nash Members Mark Adler Guy Caron Shelly Glover Randy Hoback Brian…
Statistics Canada has released a report entitled “Caring Canadians, Involved Canadians” based on the 2010 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP). Statscan will be releasing further reports on the data. Here are the main points from StatsCan: “Summary…
[Update – if you are interested in T3010 information on Canadian registered charities check out www.charitydata.ca] CharityFocus.ca is a new tool created by Imagine Canada to allow searches of Canadian registered charities. You can now also search by directors. The link…
Here is a list of the Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to other Qualified Donees – 2010. You might find this interesting. Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to other Qualified Donees – 2010 Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to other…
StatsCan recently published some statistics on charitable giving. They noted “Canadian taxfilers reported making charitable donations of just under $8.3 billion in 2010, up 6.5% from 2009. At the same time, the number of donors increased 2.2% to just over…
There are a couple of interesting websites which allow much easier searching of information from the T3010 databases. One is CharityFocus.ca (discussed at ). Another interesting website is www.opencharity.ca Opencharity.ca allows for visitors to search not only by charity…
Imagine Canada will be officially launching its Charity Focus website soon. You can review the website at At CharityFocus.ca you can: -review up to 10 years financial information for any Canadian registered charity in one chart rather than going…
There has been a little political firestorm last week over US foundations funding of certain Canadian environmental charities. So how much revenue actually comes to Canada from foreign countries including the US? The answer seems to be about $831 million. …
Here are the CRA’s “Program areas and field codes” for the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return and the TF725 Registered Charity Basic Information Sheet (BIS). These codes are needed when you are completing the T3010. As well they are useful…
Here is a copy of the Blumbergs Canadian Charity Law List – October 2011. To sign up and receive monthly updates go to FEATURED 1) Industry Canada announces that on Monday October 17, 2011 Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (CNCA)…
The Charities Directorate has recently released information obtained from the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return. It paints an interesting portrait of the charitable sector. Analysis of Government funding of Canadian Registered Charities, 2000-2009 Assets Reported by Canadian Registered Charities, 2000-2009…
In 2009, according to the CRA and its T3010 data, Canadian charities spent 2.9 billion outside of Canada. The 2.9 Billion spent by Canadian charities outside of Canada is a 16% increase over 2008. Furthermore in 2002 the expenditures on…
According to CRA for 2010 there were claims on abusive charity gifting tax schemes of over $320 million. While a lot better than the 2006 numbers of 1.3 billion – it is still a significant problem. According to CRA the…
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The Charities Directorate released “Charities Connection No. 4 – September 2010”. In addition to having some very interesting statistics on the Charities Directorate it also covers educational programs for charities and donor as well as new pages on revocation. Here…
It is good to see that in 2009 the problem of abusive charity gifting tax shelters has been further reduced. Here are the statistics from CRA: 2009: Number of “Donors”/Investors: 10,813 donors Amount of “donations”: $ 285,946,839 Number of schemes:…
Did you know that there are a number of Canadian charities with over 10,000 employees? These statistics are according to the 2008 T3010 Registered Charity Information Return numbers from the Canada Revenue Agency. There are 241 who have over a…
The US-based Hudson Institute has released its 2010 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances. It contains lots of statistics about official development assistance (ODA), international philanthropy and remittances. On the plus side if you add ODA, international philanthropy and remittances…
Cathy Hawara, Acting Director General of the Charities Directorate, delivered a presentation on April 30, 2010 and during that presentation she provided some interesting statistics on registered charities. I always knew that the Federal and Provincial governments are the largest…
In Cathy Hawara’s presentation to the Canadian Bar Association on April 30, 2010 in slide 15 she notes the most up to date statistics on charitable gifting tax shelters. “The scope of the problem is significant; the CRA estimates that…
According to the IRS in the US there are 1,238,201 organizations called 501(c)(3)s which are similar to our “registered charities”. We often hear in Canada that we have too many registered charities at 85,300 – so how do you think…
According to Statistics Canada total charitable donations in 2007 were $8,648,660,000 ($8.6Billion) and in 2008 $8,189,280,000 ($8.1B). I am not great at math but that seems to indicate a drop of about $450 million dollars. That is only part of…