Washington · Nonprofit
WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS
WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,660 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($2,660). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- —
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $-3081
What Wilderness Search Investigations does
Mission
Helping families in finding closure. Wilderness Search Investigations (wsi) helps families of missing hikers with continuing the investigation and search in a professional and organized manner after official efforts have been suspended at no charge.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Wsi investigates each search and rescue case for any existing search information that were performed prior to wsi involvement. Wsi plans to use licensed suas (drone) operators and to expand operations with funding.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS’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.
Where its funders are
WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS: 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 WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS?
- WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,660 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($2,660). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,660 in grants to WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDERNESS SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021, and the filings of 1 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