The Canadian charity and non-profit sectors are an important part of the Canadian economy and have a huge impact on the lives of Canadians. With the registered charity sector (approximately 86,000 organizations), the public has relatively up-to-date and detailed information.…
The list of municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada registered as qualified donees has now increased to 555 entities. These groups, which are largely Indigenous bands but also other organizations, can issue official donation receipts…
We recently reviewed for 2018, 2019 and 2020 how much the largest 500 Canadian private foundations spent on charitable activities or gifts to qualified donees according to their T3010 filings. We also noted the amount expended on charitable activities and…
As we have noted before in our blog on November 28, 2022, entitled Statement by the Canada’s Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson on CRA examination will be significantly hindered by the confidentiality provisions of the ITA relating to charities, Canada’s Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson will…
Here is the Blumbergs Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Ontario 2020. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2020 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 30,540 of the…
The Federal government is now providing better information on registered charities on their Open Government Portal website. Here is the description: The List of charities presents data on Canadian charities that are registered under the Income Tax Act and are…
After advocating for over a decade that the confidentiality provisions of the Income Tax Act of Canada need to be updated, Canada’s Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has noted that the confidentiality provisions relating to registered charities, amongst other matters, will hinder their…
I recently checked the Advance Search page of the Charities Listing. CRA has now added another search function which divides groups into “Type of Qualified Donee,” and there are now listed namely: 1) Registered Charities (85,842 in total) 2) Registered…
Today the CBC published an article, “Mormon Church in Canada moved $1B out of the country tax free — and it’s legal“. Tonight on The Fifth Estate, there was a report on the same topic. The article reviewed gifts from…
Below are the full audited Hockey Canada’s financial statements for the last eight years. As we have noted before, Hockey Canada is a soliciting corporation under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) and was supposed to file its financial statements…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission for the 2023 Canadian Federal Budget. For those who have been following our law firm’s submissions over the last 10 years, they have focussed on transparency and accountability in the non-profit and charity sector.…
There have been many people wondering how COVID has affected the Canadian charity sector. On March 24, 2021, we released our first report which looked at 1676 registered charities. On June 9, 2021, we released our second report with 11,821…
Here is a heavily redacted document from CRA dealing with GLGI. It does reveal the number of “investors” in the GLGI scheme from 2006 -2014.
I recently received a copy of an interesting document from CRA dealing with registered charity audit stats that was released as a result of an access to information request. In this document, the CRA identifies the audit outcomes. It is…
In our article last year, we discussed Canadian charities giving to Indigenous Charities and Qualified Donees – 2018. Now Sharon Redsky, Wanda Brascoupe, Mark Blumberg and Jessie Lang have reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2019 in…
Here is the Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2020. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2020 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,991 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities…
I recently read in an article in the Future of Good that the Calgary Foundation will be leaving Community Foundations of Canada. The article Calgary Foundation Splits with Community Foundation Network over position on endowments. In the article journalist Gabe…
The Charities Directorate of CRA recently released an Access to Information document which discusses audits of registered charities. Here is our article CRA audit statistics released through freedom of information in 2022.
I found this document entitled NPO Sector Review that had been obtained through access to information. It is from 2015 and deals with CRA‘s review of the NPO sector which includes both nonprofit organizations and registered charities. The document provides…
The Charity Commission is consulting on whether to add additional questions to the T3010. They are suggesting some of the answers will be published and some will not be. In Canada, we have a T3010 that has not changed much…
Many Canadian registered charities have a December 31 fiscal year-end. These calendar year-end charities, need to ensure that they can accurately and completely file their T3010 by June 30 of this year. Here are a few suggestions: -For smaller and…
We have made a number of updates to the CharityData.ca website. We have reimported the 2019 and 2020 data to ensure that it uses the latest data from CRA. We have modified the base year for searches from 2019 to…
Here is our article Gifts by Canadian Charities to the United Nations and its Agencies in 2019. In this article, we will look at funding of the United Nations and its agencies by Canadian registered charities. The UN is considered…
The Logic recently had an article entitled “Liberals plan to order increase in charity foundations’ spending, following The Logic’s investigation“. The article notes: The commitment comes after an investigation by The Logic found that seven percent of charities, and…