Westcoast Inland Search and Rescue Society
Publicly funded institution · Tofino, British Columbia · BN 892988320RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($72,272) as filed with the CRA.
Westcoast Inland Search and Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Tofino, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $53K in revenue and $72K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $116.
Compared with 213 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers.
In its own words
Ground Search and Rescue operations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Area of operations includes Hesquiaht to Broken Group Islands and West to Sutton Pass summit.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53K | $72K | $22K | — | — | $191K |
| 2023 | $67K | $77K | $4,297 | — | $0 | $211K |
| 2022 | $3,308 | $72K | $54K | — | — | $231K |
| 2021 | $82K | $81K | $77K | — | $0 | $241K |
| 2020 | $78K | $75K | $74K | — | — | $230K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $116 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Westcoast Inland Search and Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892988320RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.