California · Nonprofit
FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC
FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,377 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Fresno County Sheriffs Search and Rescue Mountaineering Team Inc does
Mission
To provide highly skilled and dedicated volunteers to assist the Fresno County Sheriff's Office and other agencies requesting mutual aid in search and rescue operations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
10 Search missions to locate missing persons, bring closure, and/or reunite them with their loved ones. Mission environments ranged from urban to high alpine rescue. Teams of highly trained volunteers provided over 1200 hours of service.
$23,224 spent63% of program spending16 Training events to provide 60 team members with skills and certification in various search and rescue activities including: high angle rescue, swift water, first aid, wilderness survival, and tracking. Costs included: Training expenses from certification agencies, food, equipment, and fuel.
$13,710 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,934.
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 $48k to $81k (+66%).
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.
100% of FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% 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 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $145.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM 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
FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
86% 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 FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 78% · 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
85% of FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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
FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM 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 California
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM 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 FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC?
- FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,377 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,377 in grants to FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC?
- DIRECT RELIEF is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTAINEERING TEAM INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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