Juneau Mountain Rescue

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300080336
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Juneau, AK, USA
Phone
9072099252
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Search and Rescue Squads

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$74,034
Expenses
$55,292
Assets
$660,180
Liabilities
$41,157

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JACKIE EBERT (BOARD PRESID)
  • EMILY NAUMAN (BOARD VICE P)
  • ABBIE NEWBY-KEW (BOARD SECRET)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of jmr is to perform humanitarian search, rescue, and recovery services in any climactic condition and in any situation compatible with team capabilities; promotes wilderness safety and accident prevention to the general public; provides team members with training, education, and experience.

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024, juneau mountain rescue(jmr) conducted thirty rescue missions throughout southeast Alaska. In addition to search and rescue, jmr provided several public education sessions and worked jointly with the u.s. Coast guard, skipatrol, seadogs and ccf/r special teams in missions and trainings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.5%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.94; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.5% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.