Canadian Charity Statistics

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May 2012

Mark Blumberg’s submission to the Standing Committee on Finance on transparency

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I presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance today along with 5 other witnesses.  There was a lively discussion of transparency, cross border philanthropy, tax incentives and preventing abuse of registered charities.

Canadian Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) review of charitable tax incentives

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The Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) is holding hearings on tax incentives for charitable donations.

March 2012

StatsCan releases data on volunteering “Caring Canadians, Involved Canadians”

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Statistics Canada has released a report entitled “Caring Canadians, Involved Canadians”  based on the 2010 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP).  Statscan will be releasing further reports on the data. 

CharityFocus.ca adds Director search feature

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CharityFocus.ca is a new tool created by Imagine Canada to allow searches of Canadian registered charities.  You can now also search by directors. 

February 2012

Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to other Qualified Donees - 2010

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Here is a list of the Largest Gifts from Canadian Charities to other Qualified Donees - 2010.  You might find this interesting.

January 2012

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Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law List - January 2012

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Here is the Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law List - January 2012

StatsCan stats on charity sector interesting - but notes even more interesting

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StatsCan recently published some statistics on charitable giving.  They noted “Canadian taxfilers reported making charitable donations of just under $8.3 billion in 2010, up 6.5% from 2009. At the same time, the number of donors increased 2.2% to just over 5.7 million. Data are based on income tax returns filed for 2010.”  That is a bit of a good news story and shows that many Canadians who have jobs feels quite lucky and are generally digging into their pockets more.  What is interesting and not discussed by StatsCan is that Canadian charities according to their T3010 filings issued about $13 billion in donation receipts.  Why then almost a 5 billion dollars difference between the T3010 filings and the personal income tax returns?  Many Canadians gave under $200 and did not claim any amount on their return. Some donations came from corporations and not personal taxfilers.  Also maybe some who gave over $200 did not keep their receipts or did not think it was important to file them. Perhaps the tax benefits of donating to registered charities are less important to some than to others.

Canadian Charities and Free Transparency Tools - look before you donate your time or money

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There are a couple of interesting websites which allow much easier searching of information from the T3010 databases.  One is CharityFocus.ca (discussed at http://www.globalphilanthropy.ca/index.php/blog/comments/charity_focus_from_imagine_canada_-_a_helpful_tool_to_analyze_canadian_char/ ).  Another interesting website is http://www.opencharity.ca  Opencharity.ca allows for visitors to search not only by charity name but also directors name. 

Charity Focus from Imagine Canada - a helpful tool to analyze Canadian charities

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Imagine Canada will be officially launching its Charity Focus website soon.  You can review the website at http://www.charityfocus.ca/

So how much do Canadian charities receive from foreign sources according to the T3010 Returns?

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There has been a little political firestorm last week over US foundations funding of certain Canadian environmental charities.  So how much revenue actually comes to Canada from foreign countries including the US?  The answer seems to be about $831 million.  That is from Line 4575 “Total revenue received from all sources outside Canada”.  If you are interested in who got what then read on.

December 2011

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CRA’s Program areas and field codes for the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return + TF725 BIS

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Here are the CRA’s “Program areas and field codes” for the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return and the TF725 Registered Charity Basic Information Sheet (BIS).  These codes are needed when you are completing the T3010.  As well they are useful if you are searching T3010 data to fine tune the areas of charitable work.

October 2011

Blumbergs Canadian Charity Law List - October 2011

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Here is a copy of the Blumbergs Canadian Charity Law List - October 2011.  To sign up and receive monthly updates go to http://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/index.php/pages/subscribe/

Statistics on the Canadian charitable sector from the Canada Revenue Agency, Charities Directorate

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The Charities Directorate has recently released information obtained from the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return.  It paints an interesting portrait of the charitable sector. 

Canadian charities spending on foreign activities rises by 16% in 2009 from 2008

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In 2009, according to the CRA and its T3010 data, Canadian charities spent 2.9 billion outside of Canada.

June 2011

Latest Statistics from CRA on Abusive Charity Gifting Tax Schemes

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According to CRA for 2010 there were claims on abusive charity gifting tax schemes of over $320 million.  While a lot better than the 2006 numbers of 1.3 billion - it is still a significant problem. 

March 2011

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CRA Statistics for the number of visits to the Charities Directorate Website

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Here is some information from the Charities Directorate on statistics for the Charities Directorate website

September 2010

Charities Directorate releases “Charities Connection No. 4 – September 2010” - great stats, etc.

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The Charities Directorate released “Charities Connection No. 4 – September 2010”.  In addition to having some very interesting statistics on the Charities Directorate it also covers educational programs for charities and donor as well as new pages on revocation.

August 2010

Abusive Charity Gifting Schemes in Canada suffer decline in value and numbers in 2009

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It is good to see that in 2009 the problem of abusive charity gifting tax shelters has been further reduced.  Here are the statistics from CRA:

Canadian charity employment numbers - statistics from 2008 data - how many people work for charities

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Did you know that there are a number of Canadian charities with over 10,000 employees?  These statistics are according to the 2008 T3010 Registered Charity Information Return numbers from the Canada Revenue Agency.  There are 241 who have over a thousand employees.  There are 1277 who have over a hundred employees.  There are 7456 who have over 10 employees.  There are 36,836 charities have one or more employees. 

June 2010

2010 Hudson Report Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances - People in Canada remit 12.2 b

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The US-based Hudson Institute has released its 2010 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances. It contains lots of statistics about official development assistance (ODA), international philanthropy and remittances. On the plus side if you add ODA, international philanthropy and remittances together Canada scores second to Sweden in terms of overall GDP spent, with Canada spending 1.26% of GDP. “Canada jumps from fifteenth to second place, mainly as a result of the large remittance outflows from Canada to developing countries, which alone make up .83% of Canada’s G.N.I. [Gross National Income]” (see page 15 of the report)

May 2010

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Some interesting Canadian registered charity statistics from the CRA in 2010

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Cathy Hawara, Acting Director General of the Charities Directorate, delivered a presentation on April 30, 2010 and during that presentation she provided some interesting statistics on registered charities.  I always knew that the Federal and Provincial governments are the largest source of revenue for the sector but the thing that jumped out at me as staggering was that “the proportion of revenue coming from government has increased from 54% to 67% of the sector’s total between 2000 and 2008.”:

Latest Charity Tax Shelter Information from CRA - further decline in charity tax shelters

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In Cathy Hawara’s presentation to the Canadian Bar Association on April 30, 2010 in slide 15 she notes the most up to date statistics on charitable gifting tax shelters.  “The scope of the problem is significant; the CRA estimates that since 2003 there has been approximately: 172,300 participants, $5.4 billion in claimed donations.  The Charities Directorate has revoked 35 charities and RCAAAs for participating in tax shelter schemes. 2006 to 2009 saw participation drop by 80% to 10,800 individuals and the amount of “donations” drop by 76% to $284 million.” 

April 2010

IRS Databook has interesting statistics on US charity sector

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According to the IRS in the US there are 1,238,201 organizations called 501(c)(3)s which are similar to our “registered charities”.  We often hear in Canada that we have too many registered charities at 85,300 - so how do you think the Americans feel!  In the US last year they approved 42,484 new 501(c)(3) organizations.

November 2009

Are charitable donations in Canada down in 2008?  Depends how you define donation/legitimate charity

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According to Statistics Canada total charitable donations in 2007 were $8,648,660,000 ($8.6Billion) and in 2008 $8,189,280,000 ($8.1B).  I am not great at math but that seems to indicate a drop of about $450 million dollars.  That is only part of the story.

October 2009

Canadian charity statistics

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I am compiling a list of statistics relating to Canadian charites.

August 2009

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Charity Directorate Web Statistics for 2008/2009

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Here are the 2008/2009 web statistics for the English part of the CRA website sorted by most visited pages.

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