Colorado · Nonprofit
Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc
Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,092,909 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET AND AL HILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($945,796). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared funders
- Robert K & a Joyce Jones Foundationportfolio match
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $12k → $955k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 43% · 2019 25% · 2020 40% · 2021 26% · 2022 55% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
34% of Friends of Mountain 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
Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 120 organizations that share your funders
- Robert K & a Joyce Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trousil Family Foundation Fka Indiana Gump Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Choose Outdoors Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tamarack Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Grand Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Summit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- Ernst & Young Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Fairfield County's Community Foundation Incshared fundersCT · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- The Pew Charitable Trustsshared fundersDC · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
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 Friends of Mountain 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
17% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Mountain 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc?
- Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,092,909 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET AND AL HILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($945,796). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,092,909 in grants to Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc?
- THE MARGARET AND AL HILL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $945,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Mountain 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34funders 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