Alberni Valley Rescue Squad
Publicly funded institution · Port Alberni, British Columbia · BN 130745334RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($244,561) as filed with the CRA.
Alberni Valley Rescue Squad is a charitable organization based in Port Alberni, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $281K in revenue and $245K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $525.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
The Alberni Valley Rescue Squad contributes to the enhancement of public safety through volunteer engagement in emergency services and emergency preparedness. The Squad has been serving the city of Port Alberni and Albemi-Clayoquot region for 68 years by providing professional volunteer based ground and inland waterways search and rescue services. In addition we provide mutual aid search and rescue services to surrounding communities stretching as far as the lower mainland. We hold a seat at the emergency operations committee for the Alberni-Clayoquot regional district and attend regular emer…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $281K | $245K | $229K | $0 | $0 | $494K |
| 2023 | $232K | $207K | $193K | $152 | $0 | $457K |
| 2022 | $31K | $45K | $39K | — | — | $432K |
| 2021 | $167K | $215K | $201K | — | — | $446K |
| 2020 | $235K | $234K | $218K | — | — | $495K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $525 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alberni Valley Rescue Squad’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130745334RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.