I was very pleased to see Gabe Oatley from the Future of Good interviewing Sharmila Khare, the Director General of the Charities Directorate. This took place on March 22, 2023, and you can find the full interview here. I sure…
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has just released a report “Charity Begins with Fairness: More to Explore on March 27, 2023. It is a fairly lengthy report that provides a lot of background and information on the Office of…
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has just released a report, “Charity Begins with Fairness: More to Explore“. Also, there was a recent decision on a motion in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in the case Muslim Association of…
We recently received a number of copies of Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure packages. Here are the details of the copies we received with a brief description of the ATIP request: CRA ATIP disclosure package relating to The…
As an update to our previous article, we recently received Government of Canada a copy of an ATIP disclosure document entitled: Records relating to the mandate letter commitment to make anti-abortion charities lose their charitable status from November 30, 2021…
We recently received an ATIP disclosure package from CRA relating to Bill S-216, the Effective and Accountable Charities Act. This act was not passed and was replaced by the Federal Budget in 2022. Here is the document we received: All…
As an update to our recent article providing Hockey Canada’s full audited financial statements for 2014 – 2021, we recently received an Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) package containing Hockey Canada’s financial statements, including financial statements filed with the…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…
Corporations Canada has changed their database such that when you are ordering documents from Corporations Canada on a Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) corporation, you can order financial statements in addition to other governance and filings of CNCA corporations. Here…
We have blogged about the Canadian Soccer Association and its failure to do its correct filings here Canadian Soccer Association not filing financial statements with Corporations Canada as required by the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). Now six weeks after…
Here is our article 2023 Canadian Federal Budget and its impact on the Canadian charitable sector. Today, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced Budget 2023—A Made-in-Canada Plan: Strong Middle Class, Affordable Economy, Healthy Future for the Liberal Government of Justin…
Corporations Canada will begin issuing to Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) non-profit corporations Notices of Intent to Dissolve if the CNCA non-profit corporations have not filed their corporate Form 4022 – Annual Return (“Annual Return’) in three years in a…
We recently reviewed: How much did the largest Canadian private foundations spend in 2021 on charitable activities or gifts to qualified donees according to their T3010 filings. We also noted the amount expended on charitable activities and gifts to qualified donees…
Here is our note: Which Canadian charities spent money on foreign activities in 2021 and how much did they spend? Canadian registered charities spent over $3.8 billion on direct foreign activities (not including gifts to qualified donees), and in this note…
In our article, Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from the Federal government in 2021?, we provide a list of Canadian registered charities that received the greatest amount from the Federal government.
In the article, Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Provincial Governments in 2021, we provide a list of Canadian registered charities that received the greatest amount from the various provincial governments in Canada.
In the article, Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Municipal Governments in 2021?, we provide a list of Canadian registered charities that received the greatest amount from the various municipal government.
[Update: Every year I make some comments on Statistics Canada’s release of tax data. While in this note, I will discuss their normal release, we have also posted some custom data that we have received from Statistics Canada that are…
Here is the Blumbergs Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2021. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2021 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 30,354 of the approximately 86,000…
Here is the Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2021. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2021 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,771 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities…
We made an informal ATIP request for the previously released briefing notes (available by request from ATIP here) from the Minister of International Development’s Roundtable with Humanitarian Organizations, which took place on January 13, 2021. The purpose of the meeting…
Many Canadian charities have been quite adept at using social media. It provides an opportunity for them to publicize their cause, fundraise and connect with people. It generally also has quite a low cost. Twitter has increasingly become a problematic…
It is tax time so just a reminder that there are still “abusive charity gifting tax schemes“ which promise that you will yield more tax savings than your investment CRA has already declined over $7 billion worth of receipts from…
The US government has proposed a change to how grants from a private foundation to a DAF are treated. Here is the summary of what is being proposed: The proposal would clarify that a distribution by a private foundation to…