The CRA recently released the Report on the Charities Program 2018 to 2020. If you are very interested in the charity sector in Canada you might find it interesting reading. A few quick thoughts: Both the Commissioner and the Director-General…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Federal government has launched another budget consultation – this one for Budget 2021. I sure wish there was an option to save time that allows people just to push a button and provide the same budget submission they made…
The Canadian Press recently published an article “Funding to help former governors general set up charities is discretionary: Privy Council“. The article notes: “The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created…
I am not sure how many people are aware but the Ontario government is doing a consultation on the Ontario Corporations Act and ONCA. The deadline for responding is February 8, 2021. Ostensibly the title sounds like it is focused…
Canada just added 13 new listed terrorist organizations including the Proud Boys, Atomwaffen Division, the Base, and Russian Imperial Movement. They also added Al Qaida affiliates, ISIS affiliates and a Kashmiri group. As Public Safety notes “When an entity is…
I requested a long time ago from CRA some WE Charity early documents. They only arrived this week and here they are: 886578095RR0001_Application_Redacted 886578095RR0001_Gov-Docs_Redacted 886578095RR0001_N.O.R_Redacted 2005 T3010 – WE Charity 2005 WE Charity FS_Redacted 2006 T3010 – WE Charity…
The PBO just released a report on a private member’s bill, Bill C-256, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (donations involving private corporation shares or real estate). The PBO report notes “This private member’s bill would amend the Income…
There are over 600,000 directors of Canadian charities alone. There are many more people in Canada who serve on the boards of non-profits that are not charities. Non-profits and registered charities need to have directors who are capable, caring, connected…
The CBC’s Jason Proctor wrote an article today on “Pandemic tests limits of religious freedom as churches set to fight B.C.’s COVID-19 rules in court: Group of churches claims public health measures unfairly target religious gatherings“. It quotes Mark Blumberg and…
After years of seeing less and less transparency about registered charities in Canada coming from the CRA, for various reasons, we now have one improvement from CRA in terms of disclosure about foreign activities. I want to commend them for…
I recently ran across a very good article entitled: “Going the Extra Mile: The Liability of Foreignness in U.S. Foundation International Grantmaking to Local NGOs”. It was written by three US professors namely Carrie R. Oelberger, Jesse Lecy, and Simon…
Mark Blumberg will be delivering a webinar for Blackbaud on “Tax Receipting and the Top Compliance Issues for Canadian Charities“. Here is further information: Tax Receipting and the Top Compliance Issues for Canadian Charities January 21, 2021 at…
La Presse Inc. is now the first registered journalism organization registered under new category of qualified donee. You can see it listed here. As CRA notes “A registered journalism organization (RJO) is a qualified donee; therefore, it can issue official donation receipts…
Here is a reminder we just received from Corporations Canada relating to AGMs in 2021 for CNCA corporations and that they can be done virtually, partially virtually or by unanimous resolution in many cases. Also if you wish to delay…
Many Canadian registered charities will be receiving funds from the Federal government relating to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) and other programs. Some of these charities will have never received funding from the Federal government…
Today an article appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek entitled “How a Charity Superstar Innovated Its Way to Political Scandal: The Kielburger brothers courted celebrities, became voluntourism pioneers, and built a Davos-friendly model of philanthrocapitalism. Then a Canadian Covid-relief deal got people…
Did you know that there are: 31,462 active CNCA corporations (As of September 1st 2020) 3,364 incorporations last year alone: (Fiscal year 2018-2019) At this rate, we will have double the number of Federal corporations in less than 10 years. …
We have recently prepared a new course on Running and Maintaining a Federal Non-Profit Corporation under the CNCA – An Introduction. Here is information on the course and how to register. Here is a blurb on the course: There are about…
We recently did a course entitled Multiple Corporate Structures for Canadian For-Profits, NPOs, + Charities to Enhance Flexibility and Impact. People who run charities, for-profits and non-profits in Canada and wish to understand the benefits of multiple entities for liability…
An interesting report from the OECD on charities in many different countries recently was published. It was given a really exciting title namely “Taxation and Philanthropy” so you might have missed it at the checkout at your local grocery store. …