Database: Charities that pay external fundraisers

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Database: Charities that pay external fundraisers

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | 11:52 AM ET

CBC News

There are more than 85,000 charities registered with Canada Revenue Agency. All of them can issue tax receipts for the donations they solicit from you. Many of those charities are small, with limited staffs that rely on outside companies to do their fundraising.

However, a CBC investigation has found that in some cases, external fundraising companies are billing charities for well over half the money they collect — and in some cases, more than 90 per cent.

Over the past five years, external fundraisers in Canada have taken in more than $750 million.

The database below was built from records supplied by the Canada Revenue Agency on charities that paid external fundraisers for their campaigns during 2008 and 2009.

Please note: This database provides information on charities that hired external fundraisers for specific campaigns. It doesn't necessarily reflect all the fundraising a charity has done. For some charities, these contracts with external fundraisers may represent only a small proportion of the charity's overall fundraising picture. To see all the details of a specific registered charity's revenue and expenditures, go to the Canada Revenue Agency's charities website.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/09/21/f-charities-database-fundraisers.html#ixzz10Lp7DhL8