I recently came across an interesting twitter post by @nonprofitvoice?concerning Alberta’s charity sector. The work is done by The?Sean Blumberg Transparency Project,?a body of the Ontario firm Blumberg Segal LLP?which?reviews the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return databases of several provinces.

In the end, their work provides us with wonderful snapshots of our provinces charity sector for 2012, some of the highlights are as follows:

  • 9,096 registered charities in Alberta
  • 3,309 of the registered charities listed websites
  • 8,329 identified themselves as active and 574 as inactive
  • 3,708 made gifts to other charities or qualified donees during their 2012 fiscal year
  • $29.4 billion in total revenue for Alberta charities and total expenditures of $29.2 billion.
  • 696 conducted activities outside of Canada and spent about $157 million outside of Canada
  • 23 Alberta charities received funds from CIDA
  • 333 identified having contractual relationships with foreign intermediaries, 212 Alberta charities identified that employees conducted activities outside of Canada and 416 had volunteers conducting foreign activities.
  • 43 identified carrying on political activities
  • 3986 identified having employment expenses while 5028 did not have any employment expenses
  • 186,933 full time employees and 229,079 part-time employees
  • $15.7 Billion was spent by Alberta charities on salaries and other compensation expenditures
  • $1.9 Billion in official donation receipts were issued by Alberta charities

If you would like a more in-depth look at the above work, a .PDF is available here?and the website’s article is available here.

Enjoy.