Statistics Canada Reports Fewer Donations In

On March 14, 2024, Statistics Canada released a new report concerning charitable spending in the 2022 year entitled Fewer charitable donors, less money donated in 2022. As its title suggests, the report states that the charitable sector had received significantly less donations that year.

In 2022, just under 5 million Canadian tax filers, constituting 17.1% of all tax filers, declared charitable donations, marking a slight decrease of 0.3% fewer declarants from the previous year, despite a 3.0% increase in the overall number of tax filers. The total amount donated in 2022 declined for the first time since 2016 (decreasing by 3.1% to $11.4 billion) despite the prior year's significant increase of 11.5% in 2021, the largest surge since 2005.