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…
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…
If you do a corporate profile report for Hockey Canada at the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) website, you see the following for Hockey Canada. My comments are below the Corporate Profile Report. Federal Corporation Information Federal Corporation…
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…
We are advocates for transparency but privacy is also an important value. Does the public deserve to know the home address of each of your board members? We think probably not. When being asked to list an address for service…
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…
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…
In June 2021 we noted that apparently CRA had proposed a penalty against WE Charity and WE Charity had appealed that penalty in the Tax Court of Canada. Now it appears that WE Charity has withdrawn their appeal in the…
The Budget Implementation Act No. 1 was recently passed which allows for “(l) enabling registered charities to enter into charitable partnerships with organizations other than qualified donees under certain conditions;”. There has been a lot of changes and misunderstandings about this…
CRA discusses Federal/Provincial/Territorial Network of Charity Regulators in a new page. I’m very pleased that this page has been set up and it provides greater transparency on the regulation of charities in Canada. The Network has been around since 2004,…
The Charity Commission is consulting on whether to add additional questions to the T3010. They are suggesting some of the answers will be published and some will not be. In Canada, we have a T3010 that has not changed much…
Many Canadian registered charities have a December 31 fiscal year-end. These calendar year-end charities, need to ensure that they can accurately and completely file their T3010 by June 30 of this year. Here are a few suggestions: -For smaller and…
The Globe and Mail recently covered a bill in the Senate that if passed would create a foreign lobbyist register. Here is Bill 237, An Act to establish the Foreign Influence Registry and to amend the Criminal Code. Here are…