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…
This interesting dashboard from CRA notes some figures relating to registered charities and the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS). In total, registered charities received $4.1 billion in CEWS payments. There were 219,192 charity applications for CEWS and around 218,457 were…
CRA has put out a reminder that charities with a March 31 year-end need to file their T3010 by the end of September. Many charities that receive government funds have a March 31 year-end. It is important the T3010 is…
The Federal government has announced they will be conducting a Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2023 Budget. If you are interested in making a submission, you have until October 8, 2022. In addition, the Federal government has put forward…
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…
On August 9th, 2022, the Department of Finance Canada announced that it has published draft legislation (and explanatory notes) to implement Budget 2022 tax measures and amendments for comment. Among the proposed amendments to the Income Tax Act are changes…
Today, we received some more information from CRA on penalties and suspensions including documents for the four following organizations: Fondation quebecoise du sida – 140607490RR0001_Application_Redacted Fondation quebecoise du sida – 140607490RR0001_Gov Docs_Redacted Fondation quebecoise du sida – 140607490RR0001_N.O.R_Redacted Fondation…
We just launched a new course titled Being a Director of a Canadian Non-Profit or Registered Charity; the rewards, pitfalls, and obligations of trying to help your community by being a director of an NPO or charity. Here is a…
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…
We posted on July 12, 2022, the financial statements of many Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Associations or RCAAAs that were obtained through access to information. Unfortunately, CRA does not post the financial statements of charities or RCAAAs on their website.…
I have been getting some client queries about the disbursement quota and whether it will be passed. Here is my understanding of the current situation: Changes to the disbursement quota were announced/proposed in the April 7, 2022, Federal Budget. These…
The New York Times recently published an article “76 Fake Charities Shared a Mailbox. The I.R.S. Approved Them All.” It is an important article in that it illustrates some of the tremendous problems in the US charity system. It is…
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…
Many non-profits and charities have and continue to provide assistance to refugees. This CRA letter may be of interest to those who are supporting refugees in Canada. Is financial support payments provided to resettled refugees included in the recipients’ income…
In the article, AFN chief says Canadian bishops collecting donations from papal visit is ‘inappropriate’, the AFN alleges that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is fundraising around the Pope’s visit to Canada and there are solicitations of people wanting…
Trudeau is noticing abuse at Hockey Canada all of sudden and he wants to see change. Trudeau said, “We need to see Hockey Canada demonstrating a level of transparency, accountability (and) understanding of the situation they’re faced with, … There…
We recently obtained a copy of an access to information request which had the financial statements of many of the Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Associations. We have divided the financial statements that we received and placed them below. If there…
In February of 2021, Statistics Canada released the report Diversity of charity and non-profit boards of directors: Overview of the Canadian non-profit sector. It was based on a questionnaire crowdsourced on the internet for responses by non-profits and charities. It…
We noticed that the Charities Listing of CRA notes that WE Charity received a penalty from the Charities Directorate. Here is a link. On the Charities Detail page of the Charities Listing for WE Charity it provides: Penalty: Effective date…
Here is an article entitled “Right-Wing Charity Offers Tax Breaks to Donors Paying Convoy Leader’s Legal Bills in Criminal Case” from Press Progress. It discusses a registered charity called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom and its defence of convoy organizer Tamara…
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…
Here is some coverage of MAC. The first article talks about MAC’s CRA audit and application in Ontario Superior Court. The second article claims that MAC promotes hatred and the Liberal government should stop funding them. Two vastly very different…
The House of Commons Finance Committee is launching its pre-budget consultations and groups/individuals can provide submissions until October 8, 2022. Here is the news release: For immediate release NEWS RELEASE Canadians are Invited to Share…