Help Us Help
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 891205940RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,326,394) as filed with the CRA.
Help Us Help is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $165K.
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 100% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.8M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Focused on providing humanitarian assistance and educational initiatives that take place in ukraine. Engaged in programs that work to further areas of humanitarian aid education literacy arts and culture social work civil society.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.3M | $854K | $119K | $751K | $9.9M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $151K | $940K | $9.4M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $89K | $1.1M | $9.4M |
| 2021 | $6M | $604K | $326K | $71K | — | $785K |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $618K | $339K | $59K | — | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $165K from 19 charities:
- Walsh Foundation$60K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- Temerty Foundation$12K
- Myhal Family Foundation$10K
- Ihnatowycz Family Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,246
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$6,000
- Zorianna and Eugene Hyworon Foundation Inc.$6,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,788
- Fondation 104$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,150
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,060
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ST. Vladimir Hamilton$1,650
- The Charitable Trust of the Canadian Federation of University Women/etobicoke$1,102
- United Way of Greater Toronto$624
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$152
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$80
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$341K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tamara Bolotenko (chair); Zorianna Hyworon (director); Mark Keller (director); Leah Temerty Lord (director); Christyna Prokipchuk (director); Oksana Smerechuk (secretary); Tatiana Tonkovich (treasurer); Petra Wrzesnewskyj-Cottrell (director); Sophia Yushchenko (director); Darya Trushkina (director); Andrew Potichnyj (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Help Us Help’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891205940RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.