Alpine Rescue Team

Analysis

Alpine Rescue Team is a registered charity in United States, based in Evergreen, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1966, 60 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, Alpine Rescue Team reported income of $255k and spending of $146k, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $173k to $255k (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 78% 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, Alpine Rescue Team sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sir William Johnson Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated ($255k), Warwick Fire Department ($256k) and Enterprise Volunteer Fire Dept ($255k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $3,126, net assets of $1.2m.