Here are the CRA letters from a number of recent Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an organization being inactive for many years, to…
Although it is not news many Canadian charities would be surprised that CRA is not prepared to disclose which charities received funds from countries listed as supporters of terrorism, namely Syria and Iran. This is perhaps not the most important…
There is a list called “foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada”. As the name suggests a group that gets a “gift” from the Federal government can apply to CRA to be on…
There are a couple of important qualified donee categories that have increased in size – first the “List of municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada registered as qualified donees” which is largely aboriginal bands and…
I was recently on a VITREO podcast entitled Episode 31: The Impact of the Community Foundation – How They Have Become Power Players in Philanthropy and What it Means for the Sector. It dealt with community foundations, donor-advised funds and perpetual…
Here is an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) request made of Global Affairs Canada in 2018 relating to “List of all Canadian non-profit organization (NGOs) and charities that applied for international development funding and were successful from Jan 1, 2011…
We have recently launched another online course entitled “Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) In Canada: Understanding this important and often misunderstood philanthropic vehicle? It is 1.5 hours long and covers a number of topics relating to donor-advised funds or DAFs.
We are pleased to launch our Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2017 with information on the Canadian registered charity sector for 2017. 2017 is the last year that there is currently full data available.
Are you a group outside of Canada considering fundraising initiatives in Canada or a group outside of Canada that has supporters in Canada? Are you wondering how to deal with Canadian supporters? The presentation will briefly introduce participants to the…
We have just launched our 3rd online course – this one is entitled “Fundraising from Canada: A course for groups outside of Canada“. It is geared towards those outside of Canada thinking about fundraising in Canada and the options for…
On June 28, 2019, the Tax Court of Canada released its decision Promised Land Ministries v the Queen, in which it upheld CRA's decision to suspend the registered charity Promised Land Ministries (“PLM”)'s receipting privileges for one year for failing to…
Here is our new Canadian Charity Legal Checklist. For those who are interested in reviewing legal compliance for their registered charity, they may find the checklist helpful. If you require legal assistance and wish to retain our law firm then please…
The CRA's Guidance Canadian registered charities carrying out activities outside Canada indicates it was revised on January 29, 2019. As some of you know CRA has been looking at revising their foreign activity guidance however the changes made in January…
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a full-day event on international philanthropy on April 12, 2019: Blumbergs' International Philanthropy Conference 2019. See below for more details and we hope to see you there. Over 5000 Canadian…
The Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp will be held again on Monday April 8, 2019. This is a one-day boot camp on compliance and standards issues for Canadian registered charities. You can register for the program here. This one-day workshop…
An interesting little case in BC called Bodner Estate. Irene Bodna died and left about 8m to 24 different registered charities and non-profits that are all interested in animal welfare and the environment. A small amount was as an outright…
Global News journalist Stewart Bell recently wrote an article “Government revokes charity status of Canadian Jewish group that supported ‘foreign armed forces’“. The articles discusses the recent revocation of the Canadian registered charity Beth Oloth Charitable Organization. You can see detailed…
We have created a course entitled “Should We Establish a Canadian Social Enterprise, Non-Profit or Charity and How to Do It?”. The course is $149 and you can register at https://charity-law.teachable.com/ Here is an overview of the course: Should We…
The compliance requirements and restrictions on private foundations in Canada are frequently misunderstood, even by those who run large private foundations. Here is our article Fallacies about private foundations in 2019 that might be helpful in dispelling these myths. If you are…
The Swiss Aga Khan Foundation has been added to the list of “Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada”. They have not been on the list for a number of years. We have discussed…
I wrote an article many years ago encouraging informal legal reviews by non-profits and charities. It was called “Canadian nonprofit and charity legal audits: Forget about it!”. Over the past 11 years the world has changed a bit – more…
On Monday November 19, 2018 I presented to the Special Senate Committee on the Charity Sector in Ottawa. My presentation dealt with a number of areas especially transparency of non-profits and registered charities, good charity regulation, and political activities by…
Here is the new Canadian Charity Legal Checklist. For those who are interested in reviewing legal compliance for their registered charity they may find the checklist helpful.
We launched today at the Blumbergs' Charity Law Institute 2018 the Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2016. It has some interesting statistics on the Canadian charitable sector from the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return filings. Some of the highlights of the…