Pennington County Search and Rescue Team

Analysis

Pennington County Search and Rescue Team is a registered charity in United States, based in Rapid City, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pennington County Search and Rescue Team reported income of $55k and spending of $73k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $20k to $55k (+179%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 505%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Pennington County Search and Rescue Team sits at the 20th percentile: it is larger than about 20% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 16th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Varysburg Fire Department ($55k), Model Mugging Self Defense Foundation ($55k) and Belgium Cold Springs Fire Department Inc ($55k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% of the total. At year end it held assets of $321k against liabilities of $1,991, net assets of $319k.