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Gifts reported by Canadian charities

Trace reported gifts between Canadian charity accounts using original CRA worksheet records.

Search 535,482 donor-reported gift records for fiscal periods ending in 2023 or 2024. You can look up the charity that reported a gift or the charity it named as the recipient.

Explore reported Canadian grant activities by country in the separate T1441 grant form.

Coverage and original records

A T1236 worksheet reports the amount a filer says it gave to a recipient during a fiscal period. The total includes gifts in kind when applicable. Each record gives the filer’s period end and source record numbers. Payment dates, settlement, how the recipient used the gift and what happened after it received the gift require separate evidence.

Both accounts must match the CRA identity extract for that edition. The donor’s worksheet must also match a unique financial return by exact account, period end and form version. Qualified donees can include other kinds of organization beyond the charity accounts in this search. The listed legal names come from the corresponding identification extract.

Selection step20232024
All worksheet rows349,846344,533
Filer account, period and form version did not match a financial return1,8721,632
Recipient did not match the edition’s charity accounts50,84740,808
Filer and recipient had the same account359362
Filer and recipient pair occurred more than once in the period21,59429,171
Total was zero, negative or unavailable5,0337,155
Noncash figure was outside the reported total or could not be read3628
Worksheet sequence could not be read00
Included rows270,105265,377

Each excluded row is counted at its first applicable step. Both lookup directions show the same source records. Use the worksheet edition and data record number to identify a row if you combine exports.

How worksheet totals compare with annual returns

This check sums the original worksheet rows for each matched filer and period, including rows left out of the search. It compares that sum with line 5050 of the same financial return. A comparison requires a distinct worksheet sequence for every row, all worksheet amounts and a reported line 5050 value. The dictionaries and filing guides describe differences in scope. An equal sum compares two fields the donor filed and gives no independent confirmation of receipt. Read the Canadian filing notes.

Filer periods20232024
Matched a worksheet to a return28,28728,015
Could compare both totals26,19226,056
Both totals equal20,86020,874
Worksheet sum lower3,8883,777
Worksheet sum higher1,4441,405
Comparison unavailable2,0951,959

Contains information from the Canada Revenue Agency under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Charitology linked and selected fields from the captures. The downloadable source manifest gives the original links, record counts, field order, reasons for exclusions and shard fingerprints.

Sources

  1. T1236 Qualified Donees Worksheet · Canada Revenue Agency
  2. 2023 Qualified donees source CSV · Canada Revenue Agency
  3. 2024 Qualified donees source CSV · Canada Revenue Agency