Mark Blumberg will be joining a number of speakers on March 25, 2025 for an upcoming Walrus Talks dealing with the topic of Public Education and Philanthropy in Canada. Here is more information on the virtual event and it is…
About 10,000 CNCA corporations that have not filed their annual returns in the last 3 years will be dissolved. Here are below some further approximately 235 names of corporations that have been dissolved. We have discussed this topic in multiple…
The following 1777 corporations are slated for dissolution by Corporations Canada for non-filing of their annual return (Form 4022). Some of the groups may have subsequently done their filings and they may have been removed from the list. Some of…
Earlier this week, the National Post published an article, entitled “Diaspora groups call on Canada to activate foreign agent registry ahead of federal election.” The article outlined diaspora groups’ displeasure with the indeterminate timeline for rolling out the foreign influence…
The Toronto Star recently had an article, “Law Society of Ontario hires retired senior judge to investigate CEO’s new, near-$1-million contract,” and it is well worth reading. This will be a learning moment for the LSO as well as other…
Canada announced today the addition of 7 criminal organizations to its list of designated terrorist organizations. Canadian charities want to take even greater precautions not to directly or indirectly support any of these organizations. Although this was a concession to…
The disbursement quota (DQ) is the minimum amount a registered charity is required to spend each year on its own charitable activities, on gifts to qualified donees (for example, other registered charities) or on grants to grantees. The disbursement quota…
The Government of Canada released today draft legislation to extend the 2024 charitable donations deadline to February 28, 2025. The government will introduce the draft legislation in Parliament at some point but at least the draft is available. Finance will…
We have seen many issues raised about the extension of 2024 donations to February 28, 2025. For simplicity, we will call January 2025 and February 2025 the “extension period”. We have written about our concerns with this proposal in our…
A number of groups, including Imagine Canada, have called for an extension of the normal December 31 deadline for charitable donations because of the postal strike. I am not convinced that this proposal to extend the deadline past Dec…
Most people search the CRA’s Charities Listing and see the name of the registered charity. That is actually the “Account Name” that is appearing on the Charities Listing. There is also a “Legal Name” that CRA has for every charity. …
An interesting story appeared today in the Toronto Star by Max Binks-Collier of the Investigative Journalism Bureau. The article is entitled “This Canadian cancer charity tells the public it spends most of its donations on charitable works. Financial records tell…
The CRA has recently begun collecting information on donor advised funds (DAFs) in Canada. We have blogged about it here. These are the questions that have been added: Line 5860 – Did the charity hold any donor advised funds (DAF)…
CRA has started putting up notices on the CRA My Business Account system that, beginning in January 2025, online mail will be the default for delivering most business correspondence. This does not mean that a charity must be on the…
This article will try to show you some of the major differences between the CRA’s Charities Listing and the Blumbergs’ CharityData.ca databases as of November 2024 and why depending on what you want to do, one database may be better…
I don’t know if you know this, but many of the largest charities in Canada are set up under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). Under the CNCA, if the non-profit corporation receives over $10,000 of public money, then it…
On Friday, Madam Justice Whyte Nowak of the Federal Court dismissed a motion by JNF Canada to reverse the publication in the Canada Gazette of the revocation of its charitable status. The Federal Court has decided to dismiss this motion.…
The Department of Finance has put out a press release and backgrounder, which are reproduced below, about a complicated change to the Income Tax Act (“ITA”) relating to registered charities that offer reproductive health services or information or referrals to…
In a recent decision the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected a request by a charity to seal documents in a court proceeding. Here is some background on the matter and an explanation of the meaning of this decision. The Muslim…
While there are many ways of looking at the average size of a Canadian charity, typically, size is measured in terms of revenue or assets. This is probably quite unfair as some charities have a huge amount of assets and…
Today, the Federal government added Samidoun as a listed terrorist organization. Just a reminder for Canadian non-profits and charities that there are terrroist organizations listed that are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc and you should be aware of which groups are…
There has been a paucity of CRA views on municipalities and receipting. Although some rules that apply to registered charities don’t apply to municipalities, it is clear that the rules around receipting are similar. Municipalities that are not aware of…
There is an interesting class action lawsuit in the US against a large church. It involves a number of different matters, including claims questioning the promises made by the church that they provided 15% of their funds for overseas work. …
There are many advantages for Canadian charities filing their T3010 online, as we have discussed numerous times. But how many Canadian registered charities are using the online system? We recently received data from the Charities Directorate for the fiscal 2023-2024…