Is CRA charity data free?

Yes. The Canada Revenue Agency publishes the T3010 List of charities as open data under the Open Government Licence – Canada — free to use, including commercially, and free to redistribute, with attribution. No API key required.

The T3010 is the annual Registered Charity Information Return every Canadian charity must file with the CRA. It is the source of a charity's financials, activities and directors, and is published as open data.

Does it include directors?

Yes, on demand. Director / trustee names, positions, arm's-length flag and start/end dates are available as an opt-in enrichment.

Does it include financials?

Yes, on demand. The T3010 financials add total revenue, expenditures, charitable spend, assets, liabilities and receipted donations for around 85,000 registered charities.

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How to get Canada charity data: directors & T3010 financials

Canadian charities are registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and file an annual T3010 return. Here's how to pull a charity's identity, category, address, website, board of directors / trustees and latest T3010 financials as clean JSON — for fundraising, grant research and sector analysis.

Business Number (BN) is the key

Every registered charity has a CRA Business Number (BN) — the reliable key for matching across years. The CRA's List of charities covers around 85,000 registered charities, the whole register.

What data can you get?

Identity — legal name, BN, charity category, status.
Address & website — full mailing address plus website for every charity that publishes one.
Directors & trustees (opt-in) — names, positions, arm's-length flag, start/end dates.
Financials (opt-in) — total revenue, expenditures, charitable spend, assets, liabilities, receipted donations.

The easy way (by name, BN or category)

The CRA publishes annual T3010 data files, but you have to download and join them yourself. Instead, the Canada Charity Data scraper on Apify takes a name, Business Number or category and returns a structured profile — no setup, exportable to JSON / CSV / Excel.

Use cases: fundraising & donor prospecting, grant-maker & foundation research, nonprofit CRM enrichment, board / director mapping, and sector benchmarking on Canadian charities.

Open the Canada Charity Data scraper →

Is it legal?

It reads the CRA's official T3010 open data, published under the Open Government Licence – Canada — free for commercial reuse and redistribution, with attribution. Verify your use complies with the OGL and applicable Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA); director names are personal data.