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VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY

VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$258,607 to it, the largest being CANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION (C$200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$578k
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
C$259k
Grants received
C$1.2M
Net assets
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Against its field

VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$311k) Expenses 100 (C$281k) Net assets 100 (C$260k)2018 Revenue 115 (C$358k) Expenses 95 (C$267k) Net assets 135 (C$351k)2019 Revenue 97 (C$301k) Expenses 121 (C$340k) Net assets 116 (C$303k)2020 Revenue 116 (C$360k) Expenses 91 (C$255k) Net assets 161 (C$417k)2021 Revenue 108 (C$336k) Expenses 95 (C$266k) Net assets 187 (C$487k)2022 Revenue 189 (C$590k) Expenses 107 (C$301k) Net assets 299 (C$776k)2023 Revenue 144 (C$449k) Expenses 96 (C$271k) Net assets 369 (C$960k)2024 Revenue 185 (C$578k) Expenses 136 (C$384k) Net assets 444 (C$1.2M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (136)Net assets (444)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 45% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 69% · 2022 38% · 2023 58% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,863 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$30k
’17
C$91k
’18
−C$39k
’19
C$105k
’20
C$70k
’21
C$289k
’22
C$177k
’23
C$194k
’24
22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$11k → C$179k.

From the CRA filings of VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP 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

VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY.

77%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 51% · 2019 62% · 2020 63% · 2021 58% · 2022 83% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

67% of VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

79% of VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$54k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$205k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.

03Its place in the field

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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$286k
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  • 49% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY?
VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$258,607 to it, the largest being CANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION (C$200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$258,607 in grants to VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY?
CANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

Play a game about who funds Vernon Search & Rescue Group Society →

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 11 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