Montrose Search and Rescue Team

Analysis

Montrose Search and Rescue Team is a registered charity in United States, based in Montrose, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1979, 47 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 2022, Montrose Search and Rescue Team reported income of $74k and spending of $40k, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $382k to $74k (-81%), an average of -56% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 367%. Over the whole period it spent 17% 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, Montrose Search and Rescue Team sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 31st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hoagland Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($74k), Davis Mountains Property Owners Assn Volunteer Fire Dept ($74k) and Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Inc ($74k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $205k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $205k.