British Columbia · Registered charity
RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY
RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$41,247 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$39,524). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vancity Community Foundationlocal
- The Maple Ridge Community Foundationportfolio match
- The Stewart Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 85% · 2019 90% · 2020 87% · 2021 91% · 2022 86% · 2023 47% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose C$3k → C$6k.
From the CRA filings of RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 91% · 2019 89% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Vancity Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Maple Ridge Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stewart Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbia Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Health Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Squamish Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chilliwack Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Revelstoke Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trails Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 48% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY?
- RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$41,247 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$39,524). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$41,247 in grants to RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$39,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIDGE MEADOWS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register