Salish Sea Marine Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Pender Island, British Columbia · BN 837986140RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($21,467) as filed with the CRA.
Salish Sea Marine Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Pender Island, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $24K in revenue and $21K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2.
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 reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The Society provides marine Search and Rescue services to the communities surrounding Pender Island including Galiano Mayne and Saturna Islands
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24K | $21K | $21K | — | $0 | $181K |
| 2023 | $20K | $22K | $22K | — | $0 | $129K |
| 2022 | $23K | $16K | $16K | — | $0 | $221K |
| 2021 | $7,692 | $16K | — | — | — | $63K |
| 2020 | $20K | $27K | — | — | — | $69K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $2 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Charlie Eigl (secretary-treasurer); Kevin Gosling (president); Kouf Wayne (vice-president); Roger Pilkington (director); Niall Parker (director); Nigel Watson (director at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salish Sea Marine Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 837986140RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.