The charity sector has about 2.5 million employees. In some organizations there is high turnover. That means at any point in time there are hundreds of thousands of people thinking about finding a job in the charitable sector. At Blumbergs,…
We were recently informed by the CRA Charities Directorate that the generic CRA email address previously provided for certain communications with CRA is no longer available. Regular communications with CRA should continue being completed through mail, courier or fax. Our previous…
CRA has recently released two new videos as part of their Gifting and Receipting video series. These videos are as follows: Auctions: when you can issue donation receipts and Auctions: advantage and 80% rule. The CRA videos can be…
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Here is a recent Charity Village article by Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf entitled Setting a new tone: The newly released report on the political activities of charities. The article discusses The Report of the Consultation Panel on the Political Activities of Charities and…
The New York Times recently had an article Canada Debates Whether Gift of Leibovitz Photos Is Also a Tax Dodge which discusses a donation of photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz. There was also coverage in the CBC, another CBC and Toronto Star.…
Global News recently had coverage entitled “Government revokes group’s charity status, audit cites possible funding of Pakistani militants” which discusses two recent revocations of Canadian charities. The revocations also seem to be news in India. Here is an article and…
The Ontario Government is looking at adding a regulation to the Charities Accounting Act that would allow in certain circumstances compensation for directors without specific legislation or court order. “The regulation would authorize incorporated charities to pay their directors and…
The Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) permits a not-for-profit corporation that is incorporated under another act (such as a provincial non-profit act) to continue (import) to the CNCA provided that the other act permits the continuance. This allows a not-for-profit corporation…
The Canada Revenue Agency's website, which includes the Charities Directorate, will apparently be moving to the new www.canada.ca domain on July 11, 2017. The old CRA pages will remain up during the interim period of the move. Hopefully those…
The Globe and Mail published an article titled “Canadian cancer charities merge amid crowded donation field” which discusses the recent merger between Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada and Colon Cancer Canada. Although this has been compared to the recent merger…
Corporations Canada has service standards for the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). For example, an online incorporation is 90% of the time done either the day of filing or the next day. Other incorporations are handled within 5…
Here is an article in the Non-Profit Quarterly (NPQ) that is worth reading: Are Foundations Part of the Resistance? Challenges to Elite Donors in a Neo-Populist Age. It suggests that few major foundations in the US which support areas such as…
There were supposed to be 2 important changes taking place on July 1, 2017 with Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL). The first was a new “private right of action” for individuals to sue businesses and charities if they received commercial electronic…
Mark will be presenting to the AFP GTA Congress on November 20-22, 2017 on “T3010 and Transparency in the Charitable Sector”. The full description will be: “T3010 and Transparency in the Charitable Sector” Every year Canadian registered charities must file…
Corporations Canada of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has been dissolving non-profit corporations that are under the Canada Corporations Act (CCA) but have not continued to the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). Corporations Canada has advised me that as…
The Finance Committee is having pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2018 Budget. They advise that “Written submissions of no more than 2,000 words, including an executive summary, can be submitted to the Committee until Friday, August 4, 2017 at 11:59…
The CRA sent out an email to certain stakeholders on June 20, 2017 announcing that they will no longer be accepting charity applications with draft governing documents. We will discuss the impact below. For those wanting charity status, you will need…
In this note Which Canadian charities had the highest expenditures in 2015? we list Canadian registered charities that spent over $10 million and how much they spent as reported for the 2015 fiscal year.The total expenditures of all the 84,442 registered…
The Canadian Charity Law Association (CCLA) is pleased to present: Charities, Regulation and Donors – some international perspectives on June 22, 2017 at 8:30AM in Toronto. The 1/2 day program will cover 4 thought provoking topics (see bios below) and…
In this article Some of the Canadian charities that spend the most on political activities? I have not only listed some of the Canadian charities that spent the most on political activities but also showed readers how they can find and sort the…
In this note Which Canadian charities had the biggest revenue in 2015? we cover the charities that received over $10 million in their 2015 fiscal year. The total revenue of the charity sector in 2015 was over $251 billion.
In this note Which Canadian charities had the largest assets in 2015? it identifies Canadian charities that had assets of over $10 million as identified for the 2015 fiscal year. The total assets identified are $397,833,310,726.00. This does not account for…
There are over 294,000 records of Canadian charities gifting to qualified donees in total (both within and outside of Canada). We reviewed the list and have compiled a list of gifts over $1.3 million to foreign qualified donees only for…