North Shore Rescue Team Society
Charitable organization · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119061372RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,196,685) as filed with the CRA.
North Shore Rescue Team Society is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.4M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 13% from government. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $914K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 95% of that peer group. 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 $1.4M in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The society provides for search and rescue of lost standed or injured persons in the local mountains and canyons and to assist civil agencies during other emergencies and disasters.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $1.2M | $1M | $5,591 | — | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $968K | $837K | $181 | — | $5.2M |
| 2022 | $937K | $1M | $832K | $2,232 | — | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $934K | — | — | — | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1M | $892K | $12 | — | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $914K from 26 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$330K
- Canadahelps Canadon$153K
- Canadahelps Canadon$153K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$52K
- Edna & Halvor Lunden Charitable Foundation$45K
- Vancouver Foundation$42K
- The TRH Foundation$25K
- Jemini Foundation$25K
- The Rix Family Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$15K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundation$10K
- North Vancouver City Firefighters Local 296 Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,404
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,628
- Three Peaks Family Foundation$1,500
- The Board of Education of School District No. 44 (North Vancouver)$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$784
- Makeway Foundation$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$386
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$210
- Canada Gives$200
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$200
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julie Van de Valk (training officer); David Hetherington (truck officer); Paul Chalmers (social & publications); Scott Merriman (team leader); Ronald Royston (treasurer); Scott Campbell (equipment officer); Ronald Katzman (member at large); Surya Carmichael (communications officer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from North Shore Rescue Team Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119061372RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.