Association for Rescue at Sea Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 132883907
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2021–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location: Fish Creek, WI, USA
Rating: 50
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $116,262
Expenses: $125,334
Assets: $148,172

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Capt Joe Re (President)

People named in this filing

Capt Joe Re (President)
Mrs Anne C Kifer (Secretary & Director)
Mrs Anne Skelton (Treasurer & Director)

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 recognize and honor extraordinary members of the u.s. Coast guard & u.s. Coast guard auxillary captain and crews of commercial and private vessels and captain and crews of cruise ships for their heroic efforts at sea. Due to their heroic efforts 56 lives were saved.

What it reported doing in 2025

Life-saving award ceremony held on january 13,2026 in Washington d.c.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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: 11
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 34
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 11%; rating input score 11
Program expense ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 10

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -7.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 11% of revenue deployed · 10.2% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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 11/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.