There have been many people wondering how COVID has affected the Canadian charity sector. On March 24, 2021, we released our first report which looked at 1676 registered charities. We released our second report on June 9, 2021, with 11,821 registered charities. Now we have in this third report we have 80,015 registered charities which is about 95 percent of the Canadian registered charity sector reporting.
The high-level summary when comparing the charity sector in 2019 when there was no COVID effect on Canada to 2020 when COVID was significant is that total revenue for these registered charities is down by 3% and total expenditures are up 5%.
You can read the full article on How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector? Part 3.