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BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC

BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH INC ($10,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5k
Revenue FY2023
4
Funders on record
$24k
Grants received
$98k
Net assets
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%

Against its field

BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−63% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−46% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,151 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($33k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2021 Revenue 457 ($149k) Expenses 3070 ($73k) Net assets 353 ($107k)2022 Revenue 35 ($12k) Expenses 717 ($17k) Net assets 335 ($102k)2023 Revenue 15 ($5k) Expenses 344 ($8k) Net assets 325 ($98k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (15)Expenses (344)Net assets (325)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,776 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
20
$77k
21
$5k
22
$3k
23
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.

From the IRS filings of BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC’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

BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

44% 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 BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC.

44%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 91%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

BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 4 states in all.

MT
DC
GA
TX

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

21
22
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Montana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC: 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 BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC?
BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH INC ($10,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $24,000 in grants to BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC.
Who is the largest funder of BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC?
SHARE OUR STRENGTH INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG HORN SEARCH & RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2020–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing