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King County Search and Rescue Association at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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King County Search and Rescue Association

KCSARA transforms community volunteerism into professional-grade emergency response.

$60k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
—
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Animals$93kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $57,182, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,705 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,523 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
$20,462
Median grant
—
States reached
$660k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE$21,533
KING COUNTY EXPLORER SEARCH & RESCUE$20,462
KING COUNTY 4X4 SEARCH & RESCUE$10,184
REGIONAL SPECIAL VEHICLE UNIT$5,003
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 4 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$113k
$29k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE
    3× · 2018–2022 · $49k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2020 · $29k
  • 4S
    4X4 SAR
    2× · 2020–2021 · $24k

Funded once

  • KS
    KC SEARCH & RESCUE DOGS
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
  • R
    RSVU
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2022.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2022, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $48,979 · OtherSEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $29,475 · OtherIndividual grant recipient4X4 SAR: $23,564 · Other4X4 SARKC SEARCH & RESCUE DOGS: $23,445 · OtherKC SEARCH & RESCUE DOGSKING COUNTY EXPLORER SEARCH & RESCUE: $20,462 · OtherKING COUNTY EXPLORER SEARCH & RESCUEREGIONAL SPECIAL VEHICLE UNIT: $11,018 · OtherREGIONAL SPECIAL VEHICLE UNITKING COUNTY 4X4 SEARCH & RESCUE: $10,184 · OtherKING COUNTY 4X4 SEARCH & RESCUE+1 more: $5,456 · Other
Other$172,583

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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