Saturna Island Fire Protection Society
Publicly funded institution · Saturna Island, British Columbia · BN 888226636RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($301,478) as filed with the CRA.
Saturna Island Fire Protection Society is a charitable organization based in Saturna 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 $366K in revenue and $301K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $5,000.
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 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 $221K in 2020 to $366K in 2024.
In its own words
Provision of fire search and rescue and medical emergency rescue services and patient transportation; training of volunteers; maintaining and operating fire halls fire protection vehicles and equipment and ambulances.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $366K | $301K | $301K | — | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $327K | $300K | $300K | — | — | $951K |
| 2022 | $238K | $299K | $299K | — | — | $924K |
| 2021 | $196K | $221K | — | — | — | $986K |
| 2020 | $221K | $247K | $247K | — | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$74K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Saturna Island Fire Protection Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888226636RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.