Fernie & District Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Fernie, British Columbia · BN 898329297RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($133,073) as filed with the CRA.
Fernie & District Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Fernie, 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $210K in revenue and $133K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 100% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Search and rescue activities in the fernie area under the authority of emergency management and climate readiness bc
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $210K | $133K | $157K | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $223K | $116K | $101K | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $173K | $127K | $107K | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $152K | $107K | $92K | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $246K | $94K | $76K | — | — | -$1 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $15K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ben Tan; Ed Gillespie (director); Jikke Gyorki (director); Rick Emmerson (director); Brendan Morgan (director); Graham Preston; Jennifer Heath; Duncan Maisels; Rob Lanthier.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fernie & District Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898329297RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.