British Columbia · Registered charity
SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY
SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$12,348 to it, the largest being OLYMPIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 186 protective health care nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Creston Valley Community Foundationlocal
- Whistler Health Care Foundationportfolio match
- Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Societyportfolio 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 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 86% · 2020 57% · 2021 86% · 2023 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$3k → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of SPARWOOD SEARCH & 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
SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 2 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Creston Valley Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 25 organizations near you
- Whistler Health Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Squamish Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paws for Hope Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stewart Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Four Feet Companion Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shuswap Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marilyn Neaves Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Help a Buddy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Whistlerportfolio 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 SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 78% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SPARWOOD SEARCH & 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY?
- SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$12,348 to it, the largest being OLYMPIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$12,348 in grants to SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARWOOD SEARCH & RESCUE SOCIETY?
- OLYMPIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARWOOD SEARCH & 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 6 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