On June 2, 2025, the Federal Court of Appeal released a decision in Jewish National Fund of Canada Inc. v. Canada (National Revenue) (2025 FCA 110) (PDF version). JNF Canada had gone to the Federal Court with an application for…
In 2015, almost ten years ago, a charity in the UK called Kids Company was shut down. It was covered heavily by the media. The Charity Commission of England and Wales subsequently published an Inquiry Report in 2022, which found…
The CRA has announced they are doing a new webinar on “Completing your T3010 online: A walkthrough for charities”. It will be free, one hour long and helpful for Canadian registered charities. There are English webinars on June 17 and…
Ellin Bessner of the Canadian Jewish News recently wrote an article Federal Court of Appeal hears JNF Canada’s second attempt to fight losing its charitable status which updates the confusing legacy of JNF Canada and its revocation in 2024. Definitely…
The CharityData.ca website has been updated so that searches are based on the 2023 CRA list of charities (which is now complete) and we are adding some 2024 data that was recently sent by CRA. The 2024 data is arriving…
CPATA, the Canadian Regulator of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents, is warning the public in its May newsletter again about questionable trademark emails circulating. We have touched upon this issue before in this blog on November 14, 2024. CPATA is…
Corporations Canada recently launched a new assistance tool to help corporations under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) determine if they are considered soliciting or non-soliciting. A corporation is considered soliciting when it has received more than $10,000 in income…
Charities have valuable assets, including real estate, facilities and platform Charities need to be careful to ensure that those facilities are not improperly used. The Charity Commission of England and Wales has issued an order to a charity in the…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2023 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,540 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2023. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2023 include: 30,426 Registered Charities in the Database Ontario registered charities filed their T3010 out of…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Atlantic Canada 2023. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Atlantic Canada 2023 include: 7,698 registered charities in Atlantic Canada filed their T3010 out…
Here is the Blumberg’s Snapshot of the Alberta Charity Sector 2023. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Alberta Charity Sector 2023 include: 9,100 registered charities filed their T3010 out of approximately 86,000 charities in Canada.…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Quebec Charity Sector 2023. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Quebec Charity Sector 2023 include: 15,437 charities filed their T3010 out of approximately 86,000 charities in Canada. $83.6 billion…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the British Columbia Charity Sector 2023. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the British Columbia Charity Sector 2023 include: 12,021 registered charities filed their T3010 out of approximately 86,000 charities…
The Charity Commission of England and Wales is concerned that about 100 charities have been writing cheques to “cash”. From an internal control perspective, this makes it hard to know who is receiving such funds and should either never be…
The CRA has released its 4th Quarterly Update from the Charities Directorate with lots of information on the recent activities of the Charities Directorate. Here is the full text of the update: Quarterly updates from the Charities Directorate…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…
We have just created a new course Why some US and international charities may want to have a headquarters or affiliate in Canada? It will be of interest to some US non-profits that are worried about the current political situation…
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) are at the moment in talks as the CUPW’s collective agreement expires on May 22, 2025. We are receiving notices already from banks, etc, warning of this development. Some charities…
Yesterday, on April 28, 2025, we had the Canadian Federal election. While it is clear that the Liberals won the election, it is still not clear exactly how many seats they will have. Whatever the exact numbers, it is quite…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2023 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,540 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were…
I recently was reviewing some T3010 data from CRA and was confused because it looked like the charity sector had dramatically increased its expenditures in 2023 by about $222 billion to be precise! I thought for a second that maybe…
It is horrifying to see Donald Trump threatening US universities and charities. Does anyone think that this is the end shortly? Probably not. Americans are going to have to stand up for rule of law and sensible policies. Trump said…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…