Para Marine Search & Rescue
Publicly funded institution · Pickering, Ontario · BN 868020843RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($204,810) as filed with the CRA.
Para Marine Search & Rescue is a charitable organization based in Pickering, Ontario, 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 $189K in revenue and $205K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,309.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Emergency marine search and rescue on lake ontario -training of personnel in search and rescue emergency first aid and marine radio license -promote marine safety -support canadian coast guard
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $189K | $205K | $205K | — | — | $426K |
| 2023 | $186K | $206K | $206K | — | — | $442K |
| 2022 | $259K | $117K | $117K | — | — | $462K |
| 2021 | $134K | $94K | $94K | — | — | $320K |
| 2020 | $155K | $88K | $88K | — | — | $280K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2,309 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Rycroft (director); Kennan Watters (director); Rhonda Mulcahy (director); Eleonore Edwards (director); Colin Thomson (ceo/director); Gary Endicott (director); Robert Anderson (director); Mark Poray (director); Jennifer McGuinity (secretary/treasurer); Lisa Bower (directors); Maurice Brenner (chairman/director); Samuel Cummings (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Para Marine Search & Rescue’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868020843RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.