El Paso County Search and Rescue Inc

Analysis

El Paso County Search and Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Colorado SPGS, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1990, 36 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 April 2023, El Paso County Search and Rescue Inc reported income of $293k and spending of $159k, leaving 46% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income grew from $157k to $293k (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2020, when income rose by 168%. 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, El Paso County Search and Rescue Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 58th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Potomac Valley Fire Company Inc ($293k), Routt County Search and Rescue Inc ($293k) and Athens Township Volunteer Fire Company ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.