Here is the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2019. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2019 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project and focussed on the T3010s of Ontario registered charities. …
Here is the Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2019. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2019 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,892 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities…
The Conservatives have put forward some proposals in their platform that are unclear and could have a significant negative effect on the charity sector, especially larger charities such as universities, hospitals, international development and environmental organizations. Here are the proposals…
It took many years but finally, it looks like new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) and the Ontario Business Registry will be launched on October 19, 2021. We will have more on this at our upcoming Blumbergs’ Charity Law Institute…
Many Canadian registered charities have March 31 year ends. Mostly these are aligned with government funders who have a similar year-end. These March 31 registered charities need to ensure that they can accurately file their T3010 by September 30.…
In the 2021 Federal Budget, it was announced that the Department of Finance will be doing a consultation on the disbursement quota and whether it should be raised. Interesting that the title used by Finance is “Consultation: Boosting charitable spending…
With respect to a recent bill passed by the Senate, but not the House of Commons, relating to structured arrangements/direction and control we have prepared the following blog posts with our concerns about the bill and its ultimate impact. …
I was in a session with the Ontario government today related to user feedback for the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR). In that session, they advised that the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) is targetted now to come in…
I recently read a fascinating report from the Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (ECVO) on Transforming the Non-Profit Community in Edmonton. It is relevant to all cities and communities in Canada. So many great quotes but here are just a…
In our note “How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector Part 2?” we reviewed T3010 data and found amongst the 11,821 registered charities that total revenue for these charities from 2019 to 2020 is down by 5%…
In this article Canadian charities giving to Indigenous Charities and Qualified Donees – 2018, Sharon Redsky, Wanda Brascoupe, Mark Blumberg and Jessie Lang reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 to see how many gifts and the…
On April 21, 2021 we had our Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2021. It is the second Boot Camp that we have conducted online and our tenth Boot Camp in total. Those who missed the course can catch the…
We have recently made a number of updates to CharityData.ca. The most important update is including more 2020 and 2019 charity returns. Also, if you review the foreign activities of Canadian charities under the “Programs” tab you will see that…
I recently read a very good report from The Charity Report dealing with charity sector employees entitled Charity Sector Employees: Employee Stats, Industry Compensation and Salary Averages for 2018 (September 2020). I thought that one element that was not covered…
Someone sent me a link to a report from the Centre for Inquiry Canada entitled “The Costs of Religion in Canada“. It is advocating for proselytization to be removed as charitable and groups that are only for the advancement of…
StatsCan recently did a short report on cooperatives which illuminates this type of entity. It also notes that about 64% of co-operatives are non-profit. It is not clear how many of these non-profits are registered charities. Here is the report:…
Stats Can recently released their Charitable Donors, 2019 report. I have been critical of StatsCan in the past for their annual reports on charitable donations. My concerns have been around equating claiming something on a tax return with being “generous”…
It was very nice to read recently a discussion paper from the T3010 Research Group on how the T3010 and data in the sector can be improved. It was written by François Brouard (Sprott School of Business, Carleton University), Michael…
Yesterday I tweeted about a US study on the effect on COVID on donations. The study noted that US charitable giving increased by 10.6 percent in 2020. It is based on “sample data from nearly twenty-five hundred nonprofits in…
Today I received more data from CRA for the T3010. It has partial information for 2019 and 2020 as at February 28, 2021. For 2019, there are 79840 charities reporting. For 2020, there are 25,877 There was an extension provided…
Here is a document in Excel that we recently received from the Charities Directorate of the CRA. It is entitled T3010 Master Public Data Dictionary – January 2021 and it discusses recent changes to the T3010. If you click the link…
This Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Nova Scotia 2018 provides a snapshot of the registered charity sector in Nova Scotia taken from a subset of the 2018 T3010 filings. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of…
In 2020 CRA gave an extension to many charities to deal with the unexpected events around COVID. In 2021, unless the situation changes drastically, there will be no extensions. The normal rules apply for filing of the T3010 for registered…
As we noted previously the Federal Government has launched pre-budget consultations for the 2021 Federal Budget. Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission relating to charities, transparency and other related issues. Here are our main recommendations: Primary Recommendations Recommendation 1: That…