Washington · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL
MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,300 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($187,821). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $399k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $452k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Mountain Rescue Council does
Mission
Seattle mountain rescue (smr) is a volunteer organization of experienced alpinists dedicated to saving lives in all seasons through search, rescue, and mountain safety education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Smr is a group of seasoned alpinists that specializes in technical mountain rescue and wilderness education. In 2025, smr was involved in 83 missions. Our members trained over 3,500 hours in rigging, medical and technical snow rescue activities as a team and with partner agencies. To ensure accountability to our community and donors, we publicly track our operational readiness, response data, and other impact metrics, earning the candid platinum seal of transparency for our measurable impact.
$117,742 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $117,742.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $2.2M (+17%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 37% · 2023 19% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $22k → $40k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL’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
MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 45% · 2020 99% · 2021 86% · 2022 49% · 2023 58% — 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
60% of MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
74% of MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL'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 $120k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k 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
MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL: 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 MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL?
- MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,300 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($187,821). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $452,300 in grants to MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $187,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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