Florida · Nonprofit
MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC
MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,439 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($5,173). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $180k
What Manatee County Search & Rescue Inc does
Mission
Assist local agencies in search for missing persons
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
MCSAR is dedicated to the prevention, rescue, and recovery of missing, lost or endangered persons.
$69,744 spent70% of program spendingThe Medical Division is a Rapid Intervention Team (R.I.T.) available to provide medical assistance to our members as well as citizens in need during missions, local events and trainings.
$29,416 spent30% of program spendingThe Home Safe, Safe Home program is a prevention program utilizing The Project Lifesaver Program and the Toddler Monitor to help prevent wandering/eloping and locate victims quickly to help prevent injury and loss of life.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,160.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $138k to $190k (+37%).
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.
36% of MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & 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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $5k → $2k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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
56% of MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC's grant income comes from Florida 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
MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC has grown faster 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 MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & 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 Florida
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 MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & 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 MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC?
- MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,439 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($5,173). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $15,439 in grants to MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANATEE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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