Help Lesotho
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 822468476RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,535,986) as filed with the CRA.
Help Lesotho is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $610K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 42 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Orphan and vulnerable children grandmother support leadership development and training HIV/AIDS training and gender equity education and school projects building capacity of non-governmental and governmental organizations in Africa to deliver psychosocial support to improve health and well being and relieve poverty of vulnerable communities by providing advice training tools methodologies certification and related services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $45K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $38K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.5M | $23K | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $19K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $23K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $610K from 19 charities:
- Glasswaters Foundation$400K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation$37K
- Alongside Hope Auprès de l'espoir$30K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$24K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$15K
- Hallmark Giving$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$6,050
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,454
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,200
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$640
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$575
- Bishop Hamilton Montessori School$315
- Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fund$300
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$269
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions42
- Total compensation, all staff$806K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kathleen Lauder (chair); David Johnston (chair finance & audit); Susan Richardson (chair hr committee); Amy Weber (director); Jennifer Parr (chair governance committee); Marc-Andre Roy (director); David Hallman (director); Julie Shouldice (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Help Lesotho’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 822468476RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.