Golden and District Search and Rescue Association
Publicly funded institution · Golden, British Columbia · BN 875768111RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($264,247) as filed with the CRA.
Golden and District Search and Rescue Association is a charitable organization based in Golden, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $312K in revenue and $264K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 85% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $24K.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
Search and rescue within golden and columbia shuswap regional district a excluding national parks. Also provide a mutual aid for search and rescue outside our operational area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $312K | $264K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $275K | $309K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $445K | $233K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $293K | $243K | $243K | — | — | $902K |
| 2020 | $356K | $290K | — | — | — | $852K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $24K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Golden and District Search and Rescue Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 875768111RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.