Sole Responsibility
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 842712705RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,205) as filed with the CRA.
Sole Responsibility is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5,013 in revenue and $5,205 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from donations.
Compared with 2,855 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,000 in 2024, the largest being $1,000 to Kichi Sibi Winter Trail / Sentier d'hiver Kichi Sibi. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2,306 in 2020 to $5,013 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Sole responsibility is a very small organization. We raise funds to support local organizations to encourage and promote physical activity for vulnerable youth. To raise money we ask for $60 donations from a local run club the ottawa running club. Sole responsibility and the ottawa running club are both entirely volunteer lead organizations. Occasionally someone donates a larger amount. From year to year we typically raise between $3 000 and $5 000. Every year we identify through a process of asking people to submit applications 3 to 5 organizations to whom to donate $1 000. This funds are…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5,013 | $5,205 | — | — | $5,000 | — |
| 2023 | $5,265 | $4,792 | — | — | $4,600 | $0 |
| 2022 | $5,335 | $1,619 | $0 | — | $0 | $0 |
| 2021 | $1,727 | $16K | — | — | $16K | $11K |
| 2020 | $2,306 | $1,654 | — | — | $1,600 | $25K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,000 to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Trina Harper (director); Pierre Mandeville (director); Alison Wesley-James (director); Emily Wolfe-Phillips (director); Nell Van Walsum (director); Melodie Smart (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sole Responsibility’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842712705RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.