The Charities Directorate published the Report on the Charities Program 2024-2025, which provides insights into the directorate’s  2024-2025 fiscal year. From April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, the Charities Directorate:

• provided regulatory updates and education at key events and engagement, strengthening relationships with stakeholders in the charitable sector and gaining valuable insights
• updated Guidance CG-029, Relief of poverty and charitable registration, clarifying their policy position
• initiated modernization efforts to enhance operational processes, aiming to better support the charitable sector while exploring program efficiencies
• prioritized knowledge-sharing and capacity-building internally through training initiatives, fostering a stronger foundation for informed decision-making
• streamlined the application review process and internal tools, leading to an increase in decisions
• exceeded service standard targets for telephone enquiries and telephone accessibility by callers, while responding to an increased number of calls received
• published new web pages to educate charities about the risks of terrorist abuse
• continued to support various reviews of the Charities program

The directorate reported the following statistics related to the charitable sector:

• The number of registered charities by designation comes from their administrative data for 2023.
  • 73,691 charitable organizations
  • 6,956 private foundations
  • 4,713 public foundations
• Assets, revenue, and expenditures by designation (in billion dollars)
  • 541 charitable organizations
  • 108 private foundations
  • 54 public foundations

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