Searchlight Service Dogs
Private foundation · Lisle, Ontario · BN 706098118RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($69,246) as filed with the CRA.
Searchlight Service Dogs is a private foundation based in Lisle, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $80K in revenue and $69K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,336.
Compared with 1,620 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $2,500 in 2024, the largest being $1,500 to TNT Tornados Minor Hockey. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Raising training and placing of psychiatric service dogs with clients suffering from various mental health injuries and illnesses such as PTSD and others. We currently have 5 volunteers that have donated over 2000 hours of their time.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $80K | $69K | $59K | — | $2,500 | $45K |
| 2023 | $61K | $75K | $70K | — | $1,000 | $41K |
| 2022 | $65K | $67K | $60K | — | $500 | $26K |
| 2021 | $98K | $84K | $79K | — | — | $28K |
| 2020 | $74K | $60K | $56K | — | $173 | $13K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2,500 to 2 qualified donees:
- TNT Tornados Minor Hockey$1,500
- Primrose Elementary School$1,000
Received $1,336 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$14K
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruno Amaro (president - ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Searchlight Service Dogs’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 706098118RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.