If you are like millions of Canadians, giving to charity is important to you, but choosing the right charity is not always easy.

With the launch of the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Charity Quick View and Imagine Canada’s Charity Focus, researching information on more than 85,000 registered charities has become much easier.

Charity Quick View is a new display tool that uses graphs and tables to provide a summary of a registered charity’s activities, revenues, and expenditures. It was developed with donor input, is easier to understand, and provides users with the key information they want to know.

 

Charity Focus is a tool sponsored by the CRA and developed by Imagine Canada. It provides an in-depth year-to-year comparison of financial information. Charities may also elect to upload documents that would not be available on the CRA Web site, such as mission statements, program information, annual reports and financial statements.

 

More information is available at www.cra.gc.ca/donors, or www.charityfocus.ca.