Canada Charities Scraper — CRA Registered Charities Directory

Every registered charity in Canada from the official CRA List of charities open data (Open Government Licence). One clean, structured record per charity — ready for lead generation, sector research, and due diligence.

What you get

Around 85,000 registered charities, each with:

• Business Number (BN) and legal / operating name
• Full mailing address — street, city, province, postal code
• Designation — Public foundation, Private foundation, or Charitable organization
• Category — decoded classification (e.g. Foundations, Core health care, Animal welfare, Arts)
• Website — where the charity publishes one
• Directors / officers — current board members with their positions

Example input

{
    "provinces": ["ON"],
    "keywords": ["foundation"],
    "designations": ["C"],
    "includeDirectors": true,
    "maxResults": 100
}

• keywords — match charity name, operating name or city (any keyword)
• provinces — two-letter codes (ON, BC, QC, AB…); empty = all of Canada
• designations — A public foundation, B private foundation, C charitable organization
• categories — CRA 4-digit category codes (e.g. 0210 Foundations)
• includeDirectors — turn off for a faster mailing-list-only run (the directors file is large)
• maxResults — cost guard; 0 = all

Example output

{
    "businessNumber": "119033702RR0001",
    "charityName": "MARMORA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC.",
    "designationLabel": "Charitable organization",
    "categoryLabel": "Public amenities",
    "address": "2619 ANCHOR LANE",
    "city": "KINGSTON",
    "province": "ON",
    "postalCode": "K7L0C2",
    "website": "WWW.MARMORAHISTORY.CA",
    "directors": [{ "name": "Jane Smith", "position": "Director" }],
    "id": "cra-119033702RR0001"
}

Export to Excel / CSV works out of the box, so the list drops straight into a CRM or a direct-mail campaign.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is available over the Model Context Protocol. Point your MCP client at:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=truenorthdata/canada-charities

Then ask in plain language — "registered animal-welfare charities in BC with a website" — and the agent runs the Actor and filters the results itself.

Notes

• Data source: Canada Revenue Agency — List of charities (open.canada.ca), Open Government Licence – Canada, compiled from annual T3010 returns and refreshed yearly.
• Contact coverage: full mailing address for essentially every charity; websites for many; personal emails/phone numbers are not published by the CRA.
• Roadmap: financials (revenue / expenditures / assets from the T3010 schedules) and sub-category decoding.

Use in Clay and n8n (no code)

Plug the charities directory straight into the tools your team already uses.

Clay — add a source → Import from Apify Actor → search canada-charities → set your input. Turn on auto-update to append records as rows, then enrich the organizations.

n8n — add the official Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify): Run Actor on truenorthdata/canada-charities, then Get Dataset Items, and route to Google Sheets, a CRM, or Slack. Add a Schedule trigger for an automatic refresh.

Ready-made n8n templates: import a working lead-gen workflow in one click — see Two free n8n templates for Canadian B2B lead lists.

More Canada open-data Actors by TrueNorthData

• Canada Tenders Scraper — federal + Québec government tenders (CanadaBuys, SEAO)
• Building Permits Canada — fresh building permits from Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton & Montréal
• Contractor License Scraper Canada — Quebec RBQ + Ontario HCRA builder & trade licences
• Canada New Incorporations — fresh federal company registrations, daily

All built on official Canadian open data.