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ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM

ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,667 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($102,289). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$297k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$223k
Net assets
$265k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Alaska Dive Search Rescue and Recovery Team does

Mission

The alaska dive search, rescue and recovery team (ak dive rescue) is an all-volunteer, unpaid, non-profit public safety water rescue/dive search and recovery, team that exists to provide the department of public safety (dps) a statewide capability above and underneath the waters surface. The team is activated by the state search and rescue coordinator and is ready to deploy for recovery missions anywhere in alaska usually within two hours of notification. In addition to the above the alaska dive search, rescue and recovery team is dedicated to preventing as many tragedies as possible through public education on boating and water safety.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The alaska dive search, rescue and recovery team (ak dive rescue) is an all-volunteer, unpaid, non-profit public safety water rescue/dive search and recovery, team that exists to provide the department of public safety (dps) a statewide capability above and underneath the waters surface. The team is activated by the state search and rescue coordinator and is ready to deploy for recovery missions anywhere in alaska usually within two hours of notification. In addition to the above the alaska dive search, rescue and recovery team is dedicated to preventing as many tragedies as possible through public education on boating and water safety.

    $238,072 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $238,072.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($242k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($214k)2023 Revenue 66 ($160k) Expenses 205 ($155k) Net assets 73 ($156k)2024 Revenue 123 ($297k) Expenses 331 ($251k) Net assets 124 ($265k)
202220232024
Revenue (123)Expenses (331)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $156k to $265k (+70%).

$214k
$156k
$265k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$167k
’22
$4k
’23
$46k
’24
0.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202220232024
Listed9108
Joined·+3+0
No longer listed·22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $43 → $11k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM.

46%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 79% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

63% of ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $83k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Alaska funders.

AK
CA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM?
ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,667 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($102,289). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $222,667 in grants to ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM?
The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $102,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALASKA DIVE SEARCH RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing