Category Archives: Funding

Results Update from the CRA’s 5 Year Pilot Grant Project

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Coordinators in host organizations are busy running clinics for the current tax season.  Some will be hoping to access grant funding that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently announced will be made available for the next three years of the CVITP.  Much of what the CRA is doing with this new, temporary grant program seems to be premised on the “success” of its five-year pilot grant project that ran from 2021 to 2025.

In September 2025, I published an article questioning the CRA’s assessment.  Using the public evidence available at that time, I showed that the pilot grant project had been a failure.

Recently, more data has been made public which adds to the picture.  This article looks at that data to see whether it lends any support to the CRA’s or to my conclusions. 

Budget 2025: What You Need To Know

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Tabled in Parliament in November, Budget 2025 promises sweeping changes, but how much of it truly reaches Canada’s most vulnerable residents? This article takes a closer look at the measures that matter for low‑income households, from a modest supplemental payment tied to the Canada Disability Benefit to the government’s plans for automatic benefit delivery. It highlights what’s new, what’s missing, and why some of these changes may not work as smoothly as intended.

Budget 2025 did not announce any new funding to replace the Canada Revenue Agency’s pilot grant project which terminated providing support to the CVITP in October 2025.  With automatic filing on the horizon and volunteer shortages looming, this article raises important questions about whether low‑income Canadians will actually see more support—or risk falling through the cracks. Dive in to explore the full implications.

CRA Extends Pilot CVITP Grant Project for a Fifth Year

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On February 24, the CRA posted on its CVITP website that it is extending its pilot grant project for a fifth year.  Grants of $5 will be paid for 2020 to 2024 tax year returns filed between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025.

The good news is that the CRA has managed to find some money to continue supporting the CVITP for another season.  But this masks some less welcome news.  Learn here what this means for the CVITP and this pilot grant project in the 2025 tax filing season.

What Has The CRA’s Pilot Grant Project Accomplished Between 2021 And 2023?

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Did you know that the grant funding the Canada Revenue Agency offered to host organizations is a pilot project, not a permanent feature of the CVITP?  This project was planned for three years, running from 2021 to 2023 but has been extended for a fourth year to the end of 2024.  In this article, we review how this pilot project was implemented in the three-year period and what it was supposed to as well as what it really did accomplish.  We also speculate on what the fourth year is likely to yield in the way of results.  We conclude with what we think should happen once the fourth year is completed.