Wells Gray Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Clearwater, British Columbia · BN 873855423RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($122,003) as filed with the CRA.
Wells Gray Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Clearwater, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $154K in revenue and $122K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $25.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
We perform search and rescue activities primarily for the RCMP and BCEHS.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $154K | $122K | $116K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $123K | $116K | $112K | — | — | $988K |
| 2022 | $135K | $120K | $119K | — | — | $938K |
| 2021 | $114K | $61K | $61K | — | — | $886K |
| 2020 | $118K | $69K | $68K | — | — | $837K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $25 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wells Gray Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873855423RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.