Colorado-Rapid Avalanche Deployment

Analysis

Colorado-Rapid Avalanche Deployment is a registered charity in United States, based in Dillon, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2018, 8 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, Colorado-Rapid Avalanche Deployment reported income of $173k and spending of $137k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $219k to $173k (-21%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 65% 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, Colorado-Rapid Avalanche Deployment sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orange Co Rural Volunteer Fire Department District 1 ($173k), East Chatham Fire Company Inc ($173k) and Hepburn Township Volunteer Fire Company ($172k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 25% of the total. At year end it held assets of $340k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $340k.