---
id: "ca_cra_charity_category"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["companies", "government"]
country: ["CA"]
langs: ["en", "fr"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ca_cra_charity_category"
---

# Canadian charity category code (`ca_cra_charity_category`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Four-digit category code of a registered charity in the lists of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA): the charitable purpose of the charity, as in 0001 for organizations relieving poverty; a separate sub-category code refines it.

- Parent datatype: `category`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Companies/business/organizations (companies), Government related (government)
- Countries: Canada (CA)
- Languages: English (en), French (fr)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^0[0-2]\d{2}$
```

## Examples

- `0001` — Organizations relieving poverty
- `0140`
- `0210`
- `140` (invalid example) — Written without the leading zero

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `cacracharitycategoryvalue` (data, `ca/ca_orgs.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/charities-giving/charities-listings.html>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ca_cra_charity_category.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CA/companies/ca_cra_charity_category.yaml>