Chilliwack Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Chilliwack, British Columbia · BN 891962169RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,040,206) as filed with the CRA.
Chilliwack Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under protective 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $878K in revenue and $1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 67% from government, 17% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $82K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. 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 $327K in 2020 to $878K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The charity is staffed by volunteers who provide search and rescue opeartions to people who are lost or in distress at remote locations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $878K | $1M | $1M | — | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $461K | $668K | $652K | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $495K | $357K | $344K | — | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $443K | $272K | $263K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $327K | $395K | $382K | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $82K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ellen Dyck (corresponding secretary); Greg Unruh (president); David Casey (past president); Kyle Klassen (membership secretary); Chris Tuininga (vice president); Josef Seywerd (treasurer); Brennan Hill (equipment officer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chilliwack Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891962169RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.