Desert Group Search and Rescue Volunteers

Analysis

Desert Group Search and Rescue Volunteers is a registered charity in United States, based in Boron, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1994, 32 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Desert Group Search and Rescue Volunteers reported income of $270k and spending of $83k, leaving 69% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $124k to $270k (+118%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 72% 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, Desert Group Search and Rescue Volunteers sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ligonier Valley Fire Companies ($270k), Northwoods Fire & Rescue Department Incorporated ($270k) and McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department ($270k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $640k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $640k.