Canadian Registered Charities (CRA) – Open Data
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 charities
Canadian Registered Charities (CRA) – Open Data
Registered charities in Canada from the CRA T3010 open data: BN, name, designation, category, city, province. No directors or contact details.
What it does
Downloads the Identification file of the Canada Revenue Agency "List of charities" open data release (T3010 information returns) from open.canada.ca and returns one clean row per charity, filtered the way you ask. One file download per run; no website scraping.
Sources: 2024 List of charities, 2023 List of charities.
Who it's for
Fundraising and grant-making teams, prospect researchers, CRM enrichment (match a BN to a charity), journalists and sector researchers.
Input
| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
year | 2024 (default) or 2023 |
province | 2-letter code, e.g. NS |
city | City contains (case-insensitive) |
designation | A public foundation, B private foundation, C charitable organization |
categoryCode | CRA category code, e.g. 0140 |
keyword | Legal or account name contains |
maxItems | Default 100 (max 50,000) |
Example: {"province": "NS", "designation": "C", "maxItems": 500}
Output
businessNumber, legalName, accountName, designation, designationLabel, categoryCode, subCategoryCode, city, province, postalFsa (first 3 characters of the postal code only), country, dataYear, source, licence.
Privacy: what is left out
- The Directors/Officers file is never downloaded or used. No director, officer or trustee names.
- Street address lines and the full postal code are dropped (only city, province and postal FSA are kept). Small charities often use a volunteer's home address.
- Contact web addresses, compensation and other schedule files are not used.
- Note: for some very small charities, the legal or account name can be a person's name. This is a public CRA registration name and is kept as published.
Licence and terms
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada. It allows use "including for commercial purposes" with attribution. Every row carries the attribution text.
- Automated access: the data comes from open.canada.ca's published file download. robots.txt allows it (it only asks for
Crawl-delay: 20; this Actor makes one request per run). No terms ban automated download of open data. - Independent; not endorsed by the Government of Canada or the CRA.
Pricing
Price: $0.003 per result, no start fee (pay per event, one result = one charity). 1,000 charities cost $3.00. For example, all ~3,500 Nova Scotia charities cost about $10.50. For a one-off copy of the whole country, the free CSV on open.canada.ca is cheaper.
Limits
- Data reflects the annual CRA release; it is not a live registration status check.
- Category codes are CRA numeric codes; see the CRA codes list PDF on the dataset page for their meanings.
