Catalina Island Search & Rescue Team
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330439088
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Avalon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3105100214
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Search and Rescue Squads
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,799
- Expenses
- $64,991
- Assets
- $152,241
- Liabilities
- $675
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- JJ POINDEXTER (TREASURER)
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
The catalina search and rescue team is a volunteer group that is part of the' los angeles county sheriff's department avalon station. The team is a high1y ski11ed well trained group that conducts land, sea and air rescues at no cost to the public. The purpose of the team is to find lost or overdue people, remove people who have become stranded on steep mountain terrain or cliffs, to provide first aid and or paramedic care to the injured of any type accident including: auto, scuba dive, airplane crash, fall victims and general cam p i ng accidents plus any other rescue type problems that occur.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community assistance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Assets have declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 69.3%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.34; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 69.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.