Arrowsmith Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Qualicum Beach, British Columbia · BN 893193979RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($362,624) as filed with the CRA.
Arrowsmith Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Qualicum Beach, 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 February 28, 2024, it reported $380K in revenue and $363K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 62% from government, 17% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $46K.
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 38% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $218K in 2020 to $380K in 2024.
In its own words
The society trains & supports search & rescue volunteers in parksville qualicum beach & surrounding areas. It provides volunteer ground search & inland water search & rescue services when requested by the rcmp emergency management bc ambulance service & others. It supplies and maintains equipment and facilities for the volunteers. The society also provides public education programs such as adventure smart.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $380K | $363K | $296K | $1,757 | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $646K | $299K | $245K | $1,124 | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $371K | $198K | $184K | $6,057 | $5,077 | $838K |
| 2021 | $274K | $158K | $15K | $1,101 | — | $664K |
| 2020 | $218K | $137K | $133K | $40 | — | $548K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $46K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arrowsmith Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893193979RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.