How much money you can receive

How we calculate your organization’s funding

The CRA provides funding to eligible grant applicants on a first come, first served basis.

Grant funding is calculated based on $5 per tax return filed.

There is a maximum payout of $30,000.

The CRA uses the following criteria to determine your organization’s funding:

• The number of federal income tax returns electronically filed by volunteers affiliated with your organization using the COIN^{Footnote 1}. If your organization holds multiple COINs, make sure to combine all the returns filed under those COINs when declaring the returns filed by your organization.
• Total Government Assistance (TGA) your organization may have received for the purpose of hosting a free tax clinic
  • TGA is the total of federal, provincial, municipal, and territorial funding received by an organization
  • In your grant application, your organization must disclose the TGA received for the purpose of hosting and administering free tax clinics and filing federal income tax returns
  • The TGA will be taken into consideration in the funding calculations by subtracting the TGA from the total grant amount
  • Do not include CVITP Grant funding and grant funding from Revenu Quebec in the TGA amount for your organization