Salt Spring Island Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 831801121RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($173,136) as filed with the CRA.
Salt Spring Island Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Salt Spring 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $123K in revenue and $173K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $51K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% 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 8 names.
In its own words
Provide search and rescue activities throughout the southern gulf islands.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $123K | $173K | $170K | — | — | $439K |
| 2023 | $249K | $132K | $130K | — | — | $490K |
| 2022 | $221K | $85K | $82K | — | — | $373K |
| 2021 | $129K | $86K | $86K | — | — | $237K |
| 2020 | $135K | $90K | $90K | — | — | $194K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $51K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Conrad Bowden (president); Marc Munro (vice president); Michael Cotton (treasurer); Jennifer Wilson (secretary); Jason Grindler (board member); Zeke Blazecka (board member); Mark Hall (board member); Darryl Green (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salt Spring Island Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 831801121RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.