NSAR Impact & Funding Ledger
Sample figures — enter Nunavut Search and Rescue's actuals below

Every dollar, traced from equipment to outcomes.

A working model connecting NSAR's funding — search gear, GPS units, inter-agency training, and mental health programming — through to the response speed, coordination, and lives-saved evidence funders ask for. Edit any field; the totals below recalculate immediately.

The model

How activity becomes evidence

Operational metrics track what NSAR did this quarter. Strategic metrics show whether that activity changed how NSAR performs. Impact metrics are the headline outcomes a funder reads first. Each tier rolls up into the next — the same shape as the theory of change below.

Inputs
  • Grant & donor funding
  • Volunteer hours
  • Existing gear & vehicles
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Activities
  • Procure GPS & comms gear
  • Run joint training with partner agencies
  • Deliver mental health & peer-support programming
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Outputs
(operational)
  • GPS units in service
  • Training sessions held
  • Wellbeing sessions delivered
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Outcomes
(strategic)
  • Faster time-to-locate
  • Stronger inter-agency coordination
  • Lower volunteer burnout & turnover
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Impact
  • More people found sooner
  • Fewer preventable deaths
  • A resilient, retained volunteer force
Tier 1 · Monitoring

Operational metrics

Leading indicators of activity — what NSAR is doing month to month with the funding it has. No targets yet; these establish the baseline your funders will later see improve.

Equipment, training & programming activity

Edit current values
Tier 2 · Performance

Strategic metrics

Whether operational activity is changing how NSAR performs. Set a target for each — the status chip compares NSAR's current figure against it.

Response performance & team wellbeing

Current vs. target
Tier 3 · Evidence

Impact metrics

The headline outcomes for funders. Lives-saved attribution is inherently judgment-based — report it as a defensible estimate with its method stated, not a precise count.

Outcomes for people & the volunteer force

Annual figures
Investment

Funding breakdown

The four pillars NSAR has funded to date. Enter actual grant and donor amounts to replace the sample allocation.

Total funding invested $0
Return on investment

SROI calculator

Financial return is modelled conservatively through cost avoidance — shorter searches and fewer volunteer replacements — rather than by putting a dollar figure on a life. Lives saved stays a reported count; monetizing it is optional and off by default.

Search cost avoided

Turnover cost avoided

Off by default — most SAR and rescue funders prefer lives saved reported as a count. If included, use a defensible proxy (e.g. avoided fatality search-and-recovery cost), never a value-of-life claim.
SROI ratio
$0.00
of social value returned per $1 invested
Search cost avoided / yr$0
Turnover cost avoided / yr$0
Total social value / yr$0
Cost per person assisted$0
Cost per life saved (est.)—
Next step

Data roadmap

NSAR doesn't have logged data behind these figures yet. This is the minimum each tier needs to move from illustrative to real — start with the operational logs, since they feed everything above them.