Meet the Sector
Fact 1
There are over 86,000 registered charities in Canada.1
Fact 2
Charities are vital to the Canadian economy, with $251-billion in annual revenue.1
Fact 3
The charity sector employs over 1.7 million people on a full-time basis representing 12% of the Canadian workforce.1,2
Fact 4
The majority of Canada's charities are small. 91% have 10 or fewer paid full-time staff and of these 63% are completely volunteer-run.1
Fact 5
80% of charities in Canada are small with total annual revenue of less than $500,000.1
Fact 6
67% of charitable revenue is from government funding. 89% of government funding goes to charities in the education and health categories.1
Fact 7
86% of government funding goes to charities with more than 200 full-time staff and just 4% goes to the 91% of charities with 10 or fewer full-time employees.1
Fact 8
Receipted gifts (those made by individuals and corporations entitled to a receipt) represent just 7% of total charitable revenue.1
Fact 9
Small charities rely more on donations from individuals. The average small charity with 10 or fewer full-time employees gets 35% of its revenue from individuals and corporations. Charities with more than 10 staff get just 3% of their donations from individuals and corporations.1
Fact 10
Just 8% of charitable expenditures are for management & administration and just 1% goes to fundraising.1
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Data Sources and Clarifications |
Appendix A: Data Sources and Clarifications
Throughout The Giving Report 2017 site, downloadable report and accompanying data tables, we include a reference number indicating the data source. Information on each data source, and relevant disclaimer or clarification information, is provided below. Where data has been adjusted for inflation, the Bank of Canada Inflation Calculator (http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/) has been used. The data source is Statistics Canada, CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR CANADA, MONTHLY (V41690973 series.) CAGR is used in the accompanying tables and refers to Compound Annual Growth Rate.
DATA SOURCE 1:
Canada Revenue Agency, T3010 Registered Charity Information Return information from CRA as of June 2017.
Disclaimer from CRA
The information (in whole or in part) in this package has been provided by an information technology provider. Efforts have been made to ensure that the information contained herein is correct. The Charities Directorate is not responsible for the quality, accuracy, reliability or currency of the information contained in this package.
Statistics and data are produced or compiled by the Charities Directorate for the sole purpose of providing Canadians or individuals with direct access to public information about registered charities in Canada.
The CRA is not responsible for the use and manipulation by any persons of this information.
DATA SOURCE 2:
Labour force survey estimates (LFS), by sex and detailed age group
Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 282-0002
DATA SOURCE 3:
Donations made using CanadaHelps.org
DATA SOURCE 4:
Statistics Canada, Income Statistics Division, T1 Family Files 2006 to 2015, Reference 17052
Postal Code Validation Disclaimer
The geography in T1FF request are derived based on an amalgamation of Postal CodeOM. Statistics Canada makes no representation or warranty as to, or validation of, the
accuracy of any Postal CodeOM data.
Family Type
Family Type reflects data from Statistics Canada classified as Census Family
Individual Resident
Individual Resident reflects data from Statistics Canada classified as Non-Census Family
Income Data
In some cases, reported zero values may actually reflect data not provided by Statistics Canada, typically due to an insignificant amount data.