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PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE

PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,310 to it, the largest being BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($19,237). 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.

$113k
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$19k
Grants received
$316k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,719 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($191k) Expenses 100 ($255k) Net assets 100 ($111k)2018 Revenue 54 ($103k) Expenses 59 ($150k) Net assets 59 ($65k)2019 Revenue 10 ($20k) Expenses 26 ($67k) Net assets 24 ($26k)2020 Revenue 62 ($118k) Expenses 13 ($33k) Net assets 159 ($176k)2021 Revenue 125 ($239k) Expenses 23 ($58k) Net assets 322 ($357k)2022 Revenue 31 ($59k) Expenses 29 ($74k) Net assets 308 ($342k)2023 Revenue 29 ($55k) Expenses 28 ($73k) Net assets 288 ($319k)2024 Revenue 23 ($44k) Expenses 33 ($85k) Net assets 251 ($278k)2025 Revenue 59 ($113k) Expenses 30 ($76k) Net assets 284 ($316k)
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Revenue (59)Expenses (30)Net assets (284)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2023 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,472 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
17
$47k
18
$47k
19
$85k
20
$181k
21
$15k
22
$18k
23
$41k
24
$37k
25
37
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $68 → $5.

2 of 3 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 PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE’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

PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 100%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.

Where its funders are

100% of PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE'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 $52 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE

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 South Dakota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

SD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE: 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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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 PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE?
PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,310 to it, the largest being BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($19,237). 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 PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,310 in grants to PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE?
BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNINGTON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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