Barriere First Responders Society
Publicly funded institution · Barriere, British Columbia · BN 828763375RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($30,366) as filed with the CRA.
Barriere First Responders Society is a charitable organization based in Barriere, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $60K in revenue and $30K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $50.
Compared with 213 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $25K in 2020 to $60K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
We are a community resource of volunteers assisting the bc emergency health services with high acuity medical emergencies when bcehs is delayed or needs assistance. We service an area of about 3700 square kms. Additionally we provide assistance with patient care on highway rescues multiple casualty incidents and civil emergency operations. We also have mutual aid agreements such as monitoring the inmmediate health of firrfighters while at a fire and crossing over our boundaries to help neighbouring emergency agencies when called upon. We further assist the bcas community paramedic wiith…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $60K | $30K | $30K | — | — | $109K |
| 2023 | $96K | $46K | — | — | — | $43K |
| 2022 | $93K | $19K | — | — | — | $103K |
| 2021 | $29K | $25K | $25K | — | $131 | $37K |
| 2020 | $25K | $30K | $30K | — | — | $119K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $50 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Drew McMartin (president & public relations…); Sherry Brunner (vice president); Antoon Houben (director); Azriel Kowtek (treasurer); Liam Waller (secretary); Melody Switzer (director); Sheila Sutton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Barriere First Responders Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828763375RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.