Halifax Regional Search and Rescue Team
Publicly funded institution · Lakeview, Nova Scotia · BN 890480593RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($263,930) as filed with the CRA.
Halifax Regional Search and Rescue Team is a charitable organization based in Lakeview, Nova Scotia, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $290K in revenue and $264K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $23K.
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 57% 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 $190K in 2020 to $290K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
24 hour volunteer emergency response service; assisting police agencies with various civil emergencies'; training members on navigation survival first aid and search techniques; providing training and woodproofing programs to public schools and children's clubs; providing police fire and government agencies with search management training
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $290K | $264K | $234K | — | — | $816K |
| 2023 | $200K | $188K | $165K | — | — | $790K |
| 2022 | $156K | $124K | $106K | $246 | — | $777K |
| 2021 | $138K | $132K | $108K | $720 | — | $745K |
| 2020 | $190K | $194K | $137K | $24K | — | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $23K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alastair Trower (public relations director); Duncan Enman (human resources director); David George (administrative director); Paul Service (chief director); Irene O'Neill (treasurer); Neil Harding (secretary); Blair Doyle (search director); Jamie Dean-Moore (internal training director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halifax Regional Search and Rescue Team’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890480593RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.