June 29, 2021
The new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) is targetted now to come in later this year
I was in a session with the Ontario government today related to user feedback for the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR). In that session, they…
June 19, 2021
Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (ECVO) report on Transforming the Non-Profit Community is well worth reading
I recently read a fascinating report from the Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (ECVO) on Transforming the Non-Profit Community in…
June 9, 2021
How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector? Part 2 – more data from the T3010
In our note "How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector Part 2?" we reviewed T3010 data and found amongst the 11,821 registered…
May 31, 2021
Canadian charities giving to Indigenous Charities and Qualified Donees – 2018
In this article Canadian charities giving to Indigenous Charities and Qualified Donees - 2018, Sharon Redsky, Wanda Brascoupe, Mark Blumberg and…
April 29, 2021
Successful finish for Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2021 (Online)
On April 21, 2021 we had our Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2021. It is the second Boot Camp that we have conducted online and our tenth…
April 29, 2021
Updates to CharityData.ca
We have recently made a number of updates to CharityData.ca. The most important update is including more 2020 and 2019 charity returns. Also, if…
April 10, 2021
Employees in the Canadian Charity Sector -most charities either have no employee or 1 employee
I recently read a very good report from The Charity Report dealing with charity sector employees entitled Charity Sector Employees: Employee…
April 7, 2021
Centre for Inquiry Canada publishes report on “The Costs of Religion in Canada”
Someone sent me a link to a report from the Centre for Inquiry Canada entitled "The Costs of Religion in Canada". It is advocating for…
March 28, 2021
Some interesting information on co-operatives in Canada from Statistics Canada
StatsCan recently did a short report on cooperatives which illuminates this type of entity. It also notes that about 64% of co-operatives are…
March 28, 2021
Statistics Canada report on charitable donors in 2019
Stats Can recently released their Charitable Donors, 2019 report. I have been critical of StatsCan in the past for their annual reports on…
March 27, 2021
Discussion paper from the T3010 User Group on improvements to the T3010
It was very nice to read recently a discussion paper from the T3010 Research Group on how the T3010 and data in the sector can be improved. It was…
March 24, 2021
How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector? Part 1
Yesterday I tweeted about a US study on the effect on COVID on donations. The study noted that US charitable giving increased by 10.6 percent in…
March 16, 2021
Update on T3010 data
Today I received more data from CRA for the T3010. It has partial information for 2019 and 2020 as at February 28, 2021. For 2019, there are 79840…
March 3, 2021
CRA provides additional details as to changes with the T3010 over the last few years
Here is a document in Excel that we recently received from the Charities Directorate of the CRA. It is entitled T3010 Master Public Data Dictionary…
March 3, 2021
Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Nova Scotia Charity Sector 2018 – providing data on the size and scope of NS’ charity sector
This Blumbergs' Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Nova Scotia 2018 provides a snapshot of the registered charity sector in Nova Scotia taken from a…
February 21, 2021
In 2021 T3010s will be due within 6 months of the end of a charity’s fiscal year, unlike 2020.
In 2020 CRA gave an extension to many charities to deal with the unexpected events around COVID. In 2021, unless the situation changes drastically,…
February 19, 2021
Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission for the Federal Budget 2021 relating to charities, transparency and other issues
As we noted previously the Federal Government has launched pre-budget consultations for the 2021 Federal Budget. Here is the Blumbergs' Pre-Budget…
February 15, 2021
Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the British Columbia Charity Sector 2018
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The…
February 15, 2021
Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Alberta Charity Sector 2018
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The…
February 15, 2021
Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Quebec Charity Sector 2018
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The…
February 15, 2021
Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2018
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The…
January 31, 2021
Some additional WE Charity documents from CRA finally arrived
I requested a long time ago from CRA some WE Charity early documents. They only arrived this week and here they are: …
January 23, 2021
CRA provides additional information on foreign activities by Canadian charities
After years of seeing less and less transparency about registered charities in Canada coming from the CRA, for various reasons, we now have one…
January 14, 2021
Going the Extra Mile: The Liability of Foreignness in U.S. Foundation International Grantmaking to Local NGOs
I recently ran across a very good article entitled: "Going the Extra Mile: The Liability of Foreignness in U.S. Foundation International Grantmaking…