Mid-Island Air Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 842089880RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($49,830) as filed with the CRA.
Mid-Island Air Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, 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 $60K in revenue and $50K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4,447.
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.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
We are a volunteer and not-for-profit organization under the umbrealla of the civil air search and rescue association (casara). As such we support national and provincial air search programs. We provide aur search and rescue services to the public primarily in the mid-island region of vancouver island. Operational air searches and ground homing of electronic emergency beacons occur throughout the year. We respond to search requests for missing aircraft or to work cooperatively with provincial ground search units to provide air-search capability. We also provide air search capability for the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $60K | $50K | $50K | — | — | $67K |
| 2023 | $37K | $45K | $45K | — | — | $58K |
| 2022 | $85K | $68K | $68K | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $37K | $41K | $41K | — | $0 | $47K |
| 2020 | $50K | $18K | $18K | — | — | $50K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4,447 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Timothy Wang (president); Rod Reid (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mid-Island Air Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842089880RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.