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Backcountry and Technical Search and Rescue

01 Backcountry and Technical Search and Rescue · 7 edit slice
3
orgs
7
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 3 organizations and 7 activities — Tonto Rim Search & Rescue Squad, Yavapai County Sheriffs Response T, JEROME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Independent Activation", run by 1 orgs.
Tonto Rim Search & Rescue Squad and Yavapai County Sheriffs Response T hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 3 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 3

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Community Block Development Grant 1
Government
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation 1
Foundation
Jerome Fire Auxiliary 1
Earned
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Independent Activation
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who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

AKC.org Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Center for Fire Service in Excellence Partner
shared by 1 org
Coconino County SAR Partner
shared by 1 org
Cottonwood Police Department Partner
shared by 1 org
DPS Partner
shared by 1 org
DPS Air Rescue Ranger Partner
shared by 1 org
DPS Ranger Partner
shared by 1 org
DPS Ranger helicopter Partner
shared by 1 org
Department of Public Safety (DPS) Partner
shared by 1 org
Discount Tire Funder
shared by 1 org
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Funder
shared by 1 org
Foundations Network
shared by 1 org
Frysfood.com Funder
shared by 1 org
Gila County SAR Partner
shared by 1 org
Gila County Sheriff’s Office Partner
shared by 1 org
Gila County Sheriff’s Office Government
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 Tonto Rim Search & Rescue Squad Inc AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 Yavapai County Sheriffs Response T AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 JEROME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0