Alaska · Nonprofit
BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE
BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,419 to it, the largest being Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc ($200,336). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $706k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $258k
What Barrow Search & Rescue does
Mission
To organize and conduct search and rescue operations for persons and/or property reported missing or delayed in the north slope area of alaska and to conduct public education programs about survival techniques for any season on the north slope as well as snow machine and other motor maintenance and repair.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Barrow, ak is primarily a whaling community of approximately 4,600 residents. There are occasions when people get lost on the tundra, ice, or ocean. Barrow Search & Rescue is a first response unit that reacts to crises of all kinds.
$617,069 spentof which $115,220 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $617,069.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $191k to $258k (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 33% · 2019 26% · 2020 51% · 2021 51% · 2022 76% · 2023 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $24.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE’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
BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE?
- BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,419 to it, the largest being Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc ($200,336). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $200,419 in grants to BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE?
- Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARROW SEARCH & RESCUE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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