Alaska Steamship Response Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731666290
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ketchikan, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9075862685
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,654
- Expenses
- $82,402
- Assets
- $460,823
- Liabilities
- $30,545
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL AXELSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL AXELSON (PRESIDENT)
- RICK ERICKSON (TREASURER)
- MIKE TIBBLES (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide emergency incident management for ship casualties and provide emergency planning services to associations and other organizations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided emergency incident management for ship casualties and provided emergency planning services for municipalities, shipping associations and other maritime organziations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.2%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 41
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.59; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.2% of revenue deployed · 41.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.