California · Nonprofit
EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION
EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($105). 1 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 FY2019
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $105
- Net assets
- $205k
What Explorer Post 279 Foundation does
Mission
Through a program of community service, the mission of Long Beach Search & Rescue is to provide young adults exposure to careers in public safety and opportunities to grow personally and professionally. Long Beach Search & Rescue is an award-winning Specialist Explorer Post that recruits and trains the "Leaders of Tomorrow." We provide young adults an opportunity to serve the public during emergency situations through a program of commuity service.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Besides weekly training sessions, the members respond to emergency incidents at the request of the Long Beach Police and Fire Departments.We assist the Fire Department at 2nd Alarm and greater fire incidents, at haz-mat incidents, at aircraft accidents, and natural disasters, as as during severe wind and rain storms and high tide floording.We assist the Police Department at missing person searches, evidence searches, SWAT team incidents, major crime scenes, officer involved shooting investigations, and canvassing neighborhoods with crime flyers.Search & Rescue provides the emergency personnel working these incidents with refreshments, snacks, and meals from their mobile kitchen. They provide emergency lighting to fire and crime scenes after dark and during power failure blackouts. They provide trained, uniformed members to support the Fire and Police Department personnel at their command posts and emergency incident locations at least twice every month. Search & Rescue also provides safety support at many community events throughout the year. They assist at the Ready Long Beach and other City safety fairs, Fire Department recruit graduations, Spark of Love & holiday toy giveaways,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $56 → $49.
1 of 1 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 EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION'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. $105 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,378 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,378 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION: 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 EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION?
- EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($105). 1 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 EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $105 in grants to EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPLORER POST 279 FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 1 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