Colorado · Nonprofit
San Miguel Search and Rescue
San Miguel Search and Rescue (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being SPITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA ARTHUR SPITZER FOUNDATION) ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $666k
What San Miguel Search and Rescue does
Mission
In the current reporting year, the organization funded multiple Sheriffs Office initiatives, includingstipends for Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel, member training, the acquisition of search and rescue equipment rescueequipment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization funded several Sheriffs Office initiatives, including stipends for SAR members, member training, and search and rescue equipment purchases. Provided support for Sheriffs Office search and rescue activities.
$111,452 spent$125,245 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $111,452.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $528k to $643k (+22%).
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: 2022 97% · 2023 94% · 2024 28% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of San Miguel Search and Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 4 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
2018 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $31k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 San Miguel Search and 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
San Miguel Search and Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% — 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
San Miguel Search and Rescue draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
San Miguel Search and Rescue holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 San Miguel Search and Rescue
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 San Miguel Search and 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds San Miguel Search and Rescue?
- San Miguel Search and Rescue (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being SPITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA ARTHUR SPITZER FOUNDATION) ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Miguel Search and Rescue have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $44,000 in grants to San Miguel Search and Rescue, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Miguel Search and Rescue?
- SPITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA ARTHUR SPITZER FOUNDATION) 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 San Miguel Search and Rescue 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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