Save Ontario Shipwrecks
Publicly funded institution · Blenheim, Ontario · BN 886164193RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($33,088) as filed with the CRA.
Save Ontario Shipwrecks is a charitable organization based in Blenheim, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $32K in revenue and $33K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 71% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $3.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
1. Continued the sos mooring program in conjunction with other marine heritage organizations 2. Continued to offer nautical archaeology programs for divers and non divers 3. Attended heritage and public forums to spread the message of marine heritage and under water archaeology 4. Supported sos chapters doing underwater surveys (with license from the ministry of tourism culture and sport)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32K | $33K | $15K | — | — | $46K |
| 2023 | $38K | $38K | $2,474 | — | — | $47K |
| 2022 | $28K | $25K | $2,077 | — | — | $47K |
| 2021 | $34K | $22K | $3,830 | — | — | $43K |
| 2020 | $25K | $35K | $31K | — | — | $32K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $3 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Durrell Martin (director); Durrell Martin (president); David Taylor (director); David Taylor (treasurer); Matthew Charlesworth (director); Matthew Charlesworth (secretary); John Raso (director); Raimund Krob (director); Guillaume Courcy (director); David Mekker (director); David Mekker (vice president); Trent Zawaly (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Save Ontario Shipwrecks’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886164193RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.