SOSO World Ministries
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 755607710RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,663,982) as filed with the CRA.
SOSO World Ministries is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.6M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 67% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
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 94% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $147K in 2020 to $4.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Since 2016 Soso World Ministries has been building a Mobile Food Distribution Program primarily among Toronto Community Housing Residence within Scarborough. We used our weekly and in many cases exclusive corporate donations from: Cobbs Bread Brick Street Bakery Little Caesars Baxters Bakery Adaria Vending Services and other business as opportunities arise to provide food donations to residents from our three days per week programs. The success and the demand from residents allowed us to serve twenty-two TCHC communities and thousands of residents over the past five years. We provide pri…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $4.7M | $4.7M | $0 | $0 | $11K |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $3.6M | $3.5M | $0 | $0 | $31K |
| 2022 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $4.1M | $0 | $0 | $52K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $81K |
| 2020 | $147K | $138K | $135K | $0 | $0 | -$7,096 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$102K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Garth Soso Dick (president); Debra Charlery (secretary); Edward Van Gennip (treasurer); Reza Khalili (vice-president); Kathleen Goulos (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from SOSO World Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 755607710RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.