There is no accounting for landscape : Capturing the demographics of Canadian registered charities (2000-2008)

When summarizing the statistics of registered charities three important issues are acknowledged with respect to identification and reporting: firstly, the classification of organizational activity by Category; secondly, the separation of Core and Non-Core entities; and thirdly, the classification of revenue size groupings. [...] The number of registered charities by category has changed over the reporting period with the growth of the sector (see Table 7), however, there has been little change in the Copyright 2011 Cliff Spyker and the Institute for Nonprofit Studies  There Is No Accounting for Landscape  pattern distribution between categories over the nine period (see Figure 2). [...] The largest 18  category is ‘Faith based’ representing 40% of the total number of registered charities (32,824 of the 82,655 in 2008). [...] The number of registered charities reporting less than $100,000 total revenue (44,709 in 2008) exceeds 50% of the total number of registered charities. [...] The number of registered charities reporting less than $100,000 total revenue is 54% (2008) and the number reporting more than $5M Copyright 2011 Cliff Spyker and the Institute for Nonprofit Studies  There Is No Accounting for Landscape  total revenue is 3.3%.