Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc

Analysis

Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1967, 59 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, Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc reported income of $500k and spending of $178k, leaving 64% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $249k to $500k (+101%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 509%. Over the whole period it spent 53% 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, Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jetty Rock Foundation Inc ($500k), Lavalette Volunteer Fire Dept ($500k) and Fredenberg Volunteer Fire Department ($499k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 5.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $2,135, net assets of $1.1m.