Charitable Program Clustering in Canada: A quantitative analysis using T3010 responses

Sammanfattning: There is a lot of research dedicated to understanding what makes firms successful, and that research has expanded to take on a systemic approach. Most developed nations are implementing some sort of cluster policy and firms in clusters are well known to perform better than their counterparts. This thesis suggests we borrow practises used to understand firms, to better understand nonprofit organizations. Many of the influences firms receive from being in clusters can be applicable to nonprofit originations as well. Applying research and current practise used to map and quantitatively identify business clusters, responses from the T3010 tax return of registered charities across Canada was used to investigate for evidence of nonprofit clustering.