Colorado · Nonprofit
CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC
CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,553 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,650). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $190k
What Crested Butte Search and Rescue Inc does
Mission
Search and rescue operations in the crested butte, colorado, area as a result of accidents due to hiking, biking, driving, skiing, climbing, etc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Search and rescue missions, including equipment maintenance, supplies (avalanche victims, overdue skiiers, hikers, hunters, backcountry vehicle accidents, aid to other agencies as requested).
$80,134 spent97% of program spendingCertification and training of search and rescue volunteers
$2,851 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,985.
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 2018 to 2019, from $91k to $133k (+46%).
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 CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $22k → $3k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND 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
CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 75% · 2020 92% · 2021 64% · 2022 50% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND 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 CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC?
- CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,553 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,650). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $80,553 in grants to CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $23,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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