Squamish Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Garibaldi Highlands, British Columbia · BN 887658664RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($468,790) as filed with the CRA.
Squamish Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Garibaldi Highlands, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $883K in revenue and $469K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 50% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $81K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. 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 10 names.
In its own words
Search and rescue public education and awareness communication neighborhood preparedness.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $883K | $469K | $382K | $11K | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $668K | $418K | $336K | $15K | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $787K | $433K | $369K | $3,664 | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $731K | $411K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $789K | $378K | — | — | — | $774K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $81K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- The JTMH Family Foundation$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,178
- Whistler Health CARE Foundation$2,724
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- The John C. and Sally Horsfall Eaton Foundation$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$548
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$460
- United Way of Greater Toronto$371
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cameron Stuart (president); Gerald Wolfe (vice president); Chris Welsh (treasurer); Renee Lemmond (secretary); Sue Nicholson (director); Alex Deslauriers (director); Cindy Welsh (director); Jeffrey Fielding (director); Anne Price (director); Nils Robinson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Squamish Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887658664RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.