Canadian Registered Charities List with Financial and Governance Details

The 2015 List of charities contains data on Canadian charities registered under the Income Tax Act. It is compiled from annual returns submitted to the Canada Revenue Agency and includes financial information, activities, and director details. The dataset was last refreshed on the platform on April 21, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze charity financial performance based on reported revenue and expenditure data.
• Map charitable activities and sectors across Canada based on activity descriptions.
• Study governance structures of nonprofits based on director and official information.
• Verify eligibility for issuing official donation receipts based on registration status.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official annual returns (T3010) submitted to the Canada Revenue Agency.
• Includes multiple data facets: financial information, activities, and governance details.
• Available in CSV and PDF formats for different analysis needs.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2015 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenu du Canada

Collection Method

Compiled from the annual T3010 Registered Charity Information Return submitted by each charity.

Time Range

2015

Freshness

The dataset metadata was last updated on April 21, 2026; the underlying data snapshot is from 2015.

Geography

Canada