Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada
Publicly funded institution · Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador · BN 873716971RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,436,901) as filed with the CRA.
Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada is a charitable organization based in Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador, 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 $2.5M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $91.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Ambulance fire search & rescue and other emergency services. National training standards. Development of ground search and rescue curriculm.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.4M | — | — | $406K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.6M | $2.6M | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $846K | — | — | $642K |
| 2021 | $896K | $875K | $518K | — | — | $235K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | — | $215K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $91 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$998K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Harry Blackmore (director); Janelle Coultes (president); Scott Wright (past president); Guy Lapointe (vice-president/director); Bobbi Buchanan (secretary/director); Jason Hudson (treasurer/director); Andrew Wallwork (director); Brett Wuth (director); David Lussier (director); Bradley Parker (director); Tom Girrior (director); Sherry Veinot (director); Jason Rennick (director); Heather Pringle (director); Monica Ahlstrom (director at large); Don Blakely (director at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873716971RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.