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…
CRA recently sent out a reminder to file the T3010. More than half of registered charities have a year end date of December 31st, which means that their T3010 filing is due June 30th. All charities must ensure that they…
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…
I listened to a webinar recently that I thought was very good entitled: Community Learning Series – Trust-Based Philanthropy Here is a description of the webinar: As grantmakers, we have a responsibility to confront the ways our sector has contributed…
In the last couple of weeks I have read two separate CRA notes on the importance of maintaining sufficient separation between a registered charity and a non-qualified donee (whether non-profit, foreign charity, for-profit, etc) Here is an excerpt from a…
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…
A lot has changed in 2 years when the last Federal budget was delivered. Today, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced a Federal Budget and you can see our initial comments at “2021 Canadian Federal Budget and its impact on…
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…
I just finished reading an excellent paper entitled Cross-Border Philanthropy – A U.S. Perspective by Eric Zolt. It both provides a good summary of the rationale for donation tax incentives but also raises questions of whether the US system is…
Blumberg Segal LLP is looking for an Associate Lawyer to join our Charity and Non-Profit practice. Here is a link and the text of the job listing: Blumberg Segal LLP jobs and careers | Indeed.com Associate Lawyer…
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…
Well, we are in the midst of a pandemic and this has resulted in some grantmaking foundations and philanthropists increasing giving and thinking carefully about how and who they give to. Unfortunately, and we may only know for sure in…
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate –BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own activities” requirement of charities and change the rules for Canadian charities working with non-charities,…
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate –BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own activities” requirement of charities and change the rules for Canadian charities working with non-charities,…
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate –BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own activities” requirement of charities and change the rules for Canadian charities working with non-charities,…
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate –BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own activities” requirement of charities and change the rules for Canadian charities working with non-charities,…
After my very disappointing first read of the “Report #1 of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector” which was just released last Friday here are some further thoughts. This is the first report. The Advisory Committee on the…
I recently took a look at the “Report #1 of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector” which was just released on Friday. I was going to write a long blog but I am stuck on one sentence in the…
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…
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…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 84,323 of the 85,800 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 for 2018 and were…