Colorado · Nonprofit
Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North
Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,810 to it, the largest being COLORADO GRAND INC ($46,780). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $235k
What Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North does
Mission
Provide search & rescue services and outdoor safety education to the public at no cost.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
CCSAR-Ns 54 volunteers devoted over 5227 hours in 2025 to complete 53 backcountry rescue missions and participate in 6 events to promote outdoor safety. Missions in 2025 involved rescue of hikers boaters snowmobilers bicyclists off-highway vehicle operators hunters & community members see attached listing. Safety education activities included participation in both school & community events. The attached Safe Travel Guide is used to educate the public about backcountry safety at both missions & events.
$46,499 spentof which $87,528 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,499.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $201k to $235k (+17%).
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.
98% of Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $142 → $12k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 53% · 2023 82% — 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
89% of Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North: 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 Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North?
- Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,810 to it, the largest being COLORADO GRAND INC ($46,780). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $63,810 in grants to Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North?
- COLORADO GRAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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