July 31, 2020
Transparency in the Canadian Charitable Sector and the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return Online Course
Every year we do a 3-hour course on transparency and the T3010. This year there has been a lot of interest in transparency around charities. On…
July 20, 2020
Mark Blumberg’s written submission to the Finance Committee on transparency in the non-profit and charity sector
Here is my Written Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the Upcoming Federal Budget on Transparency and Accountability in the…
July 19, 2020
We have recently added two new online courses for Canadian charities
We have recently added 2 new full-day courses namely Fundamentals of Running a Canadian Charitable Organization/Operating Charity and Fundamentals of…
June 27, 2020
Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from the Federal government in 2018?
Here is our article Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from the Federal government in 2018? In 2018 the Federal government provided…
June 27, 2020
Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Provincial Governments in 2018?
Here is our article Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Provincial Governments in 2018? In 2018 the various provincial…
June 27, 2020
Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Municipal Governments in 2018?
Here is our article Which Canadian charities received the most revenue from Municipal Governments in 2018? Municipal governments in Canada provided…
June 26, 2020
Which Canadian charities spent money on foreign activities in 2018 and how much did they spend?
In our note Which Canadian charities spent money on foreign activities in 2018 and how much did they spend we recently reviewed the T3010 information…
June 25, 2020
Charities Directorate Business Resumption Plan and Audits
CRA has just published its plan for the resumption of full activities. Here is one pertaining to the Legislation and Policy Branch (Charities). My…
May 5, 2020
BC Financial Services Authority and gifts of life insurance to charities
Every year less than 1% of Canadian registered charities identify in their T3010 receiving a life insurance policy for which they issued an official…
April 24, 2020
Blumberg Segal LLP Update for Clients and Friends – April 24, 2020
It has been over 4 weeks that many businesses, non-profits and charities in Canada have either been shut down or are trying hard to adjust to the…
April 18, 2020
CharityData.ca has been updated – check it out! More information on Canadian registered charities
We do regular updates of the portal CharityData.ca. Recently we just added more T3010 data including updated partial 2019 data and all of 2018 data.…
April 18, 2020
CRA’s Charities Listing vs. Blumbergs’ Charity Data 2020
With changes in May 2019 in which CRA removed about 10 years of public information from the Charities Listing, the differences between the CRA’s…
April 14, 2020
Webinar on Accessing Digital Services for Charities – April 14, 2020- recorded
The CRA’s Charities Directorate is currently closed, however, registered charities can still access online services through what we affectionately…
April 10, 2020
Do you need data on Canadian registered charities?
As everyone knows the CRA Charities Directorate is currently closed. I have been getting requests for data on Canadian charities by charities,…
April 10, 2020
How to take CRA T3010 charity data in Excel or CSV and move it into MS Access
I have very little formal training in data and statistics. I am a lawyer, but I have always been frustrated that very few people were using the very…
March 14, 2020
Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2020 -now online
Blumbergs is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp again on Monday, April 20, 2020. An easy enough…
March 8, 2020
Now 462 municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada registered as qualified donees
The list of municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada registered as qualified donees has grown to 462. It is…
March 8, 2020
CRA releases list of registered journalism organizations
Journalism has been under a lot of stress for many years. The Trudeau government has proposed a number of complicated and convoluted initiatives to…
March 8, 2020
Filing your T3010 for 2019 – more options for Canadian charities
Canadian registered charities now have more options when it comes to filing their T3010 for 2019. The form can be filed electronically through the…
March 8, 2020
CRA revoking dormant charities
We recently put online CRA letters to registered charities that had been revoked over the last few years as a result of audit. It was interesting…
February 19, 2020
Stats Can releases 2018 tax filer charity donation information for Canadians
Statistics Canada reported, "While fewer Canadian tax filers made charitable donations in 2018, they were more generous than in 2017." They noted…
February 16, 2020
Very surprising statistics from the Charities Directorate on recent charity registrations
I recently looked at a couple of ATIP documents from the Charities Directorate and I was quite surprised at the decline in the number of charity…
November 30, 2019
Stats Can releases information on charitable donations and it is as meaningless as always
Statistics Canada every year releases a little report on "Charitable donors". The numbers are very detailed and very specific - but unfortunately,…
November 30, 2019
Canadian donations are far more than that which is claimed by taxpayers on their returns
Here is a list of the amounts of donations claimed by donors on their Canadian tax forms. We have lamented, especially the 2006 year, when there was…