Manatee County Search & Rescue Inc

Name

Manatee County Search & Rescue Inc

Legal name

Manatee County Search & Rescue Inc

Website

https://manateecountysar.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Search and Rescue Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Emergency Response & Search-and-Rescue (SAR) (BPAGAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Search & Rescue (Urban/Water/Wilderness) Coordination (HLAJAGAJ), Disaster Response & Search and Rescue (SAR) (BPADADAA), Search & Rescue (SAR) K9 Services (BPAKAKAH)

Keywords

• Search and rescue services
• Volunteer emergency response
• Missing persons location
• Marine and wilderness rescue
• Disaster relief support

Headquarters

HQ city

Parrish

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Community Donations: The organization relies entirely on donations from the community to sustain operations and continue serving citizens of Manatee County and neighboring areas.
2. Member Contributions: Contributions from team members help sustain operations as the organization is entirely volunteer-based.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Manatee County Search & Rescue provides volunteer search, rescue, and emergency support services to local law enforcement and first response agencies across Manatee County, Florida. Core offerings include wilderness and urban search and rescue, marine and dive rescue, emergency medical care, disaster relief, and the Project Lifesaver rapid-location program for individuals with cognitive impairments. All SAR services are provided free to the community and funded entirely through donations.

Product overview

Manatee County Search & Rescue (MCSAR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) volunteer organization established in 1999, operating as a single integrated service offering. The organization provides Search and Rescue Operations as its core product, supplemented by Project Lifesaver for cognitive impairment tracking, professional Training Services (including EVOC, NASAR SARTECH II, Wilderness First Aid, K9 training), Community Outreach programs, and two volunteer positions (Rescue Technician and Operation Support Specialist). The organization relies entirely on volunteer first responders and community donations to serve Manatee County's 453,021 residents across 894.8 square miles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Search and Rescue Operations

Quantifiable outcome

• Project Lifesaver average recovery time under 30 minutes across hundreds of searches
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered support and core.

• Firehouse Subs Public Safety FoundationsupportGTM or Marketing PartnerFirehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation provides donations to support MCSAR operations. Firehouse Subs has chosen to support the organization through their foundation giving program, helping provide services free to the community.
• Beef O'Brady's (Parrish)supportGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal restaurant in Parrish that supports MCSAR through donations, providing assistance to help the team complete its mission of serving the community.
• Dog TrackssupportTechnology or IntegrationDog Tracks provides support to MCSAR, likely related to K-9 training and operations based on the organization's canine search capabilities.
• National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMCSAR members are certified Instructors and Evaluators for NASAR Fundamentals (SAR-TECH-III) and Intermediate (SAR-TECH-II) levels of Search and Rescue training. The SAR TECH II certification is recommended for individuals serving as field searchers during SAR missions.
• National Search Dog Alliance (NSDA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMCSAR offers NSDA evaluations and certifications for canine teams, helping them achieve nationally recognized operational standards for search and rescue.
• Project Lifesaver (National Program)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMCSAR operates the Project Lifesaver program, a rapid response program for locating people with cognitive impairments who wander. The program began in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1999 and is now in over 650 Sheriff and Police agencies nationally including Canada.
• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)supportStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCMEC works alongside law enforcement and families by providing case support, resources, age-progressed images when appropriate, and nationwide coordination for missing children cases where MCSAR may be deployed.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• National Search Dog Alliance (NSDA): National organization that evaluates and certifies K-9 search teams to operational standards. Comparable because MCSAR offers NSDA evaluations and uses NSDA-aligned certification for its canine resources.
• National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR): Membership organization that sets SAR training standards (SARTECH I/II/III) and certifies instructors. Comparable because MCSAR's leadership holds NASAR Instructor/Evaluator credentials, and the two organizations co-develop local training capacity.

Broad incumbents

• Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services: Large nonprofit providing disaster relief, emergency response, and humanitarian aid across the U.S. Comparable at the category level as a disaster-response nonprofit that complements MCSAR on SAR incidents, though at far greater scale and scope.
• Civil Air Patrol (CAP): U.S. Air Force Auxiliary volunteer organization providing airborne search and rescue, disaster response, and emergency services nationwide. Comparable as a much larger volunteer SAR umbrella that overlaps with MCSAR on missing-person locator missions, particularly aerial search support.
• American Red Cross: National humanitarian organization providing emergency response, disaster relief, and preparedness training. Comparable as an established disaster-response and community-preparedness nonprofit whose mission overlaps with MCSAR's emergency preparedness and disaster relief activities.

Regional players

• Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office SAR / K-9 Unit: Government-affiliated search and rescue and K-9 team serving the adjacent Tampa Bay region in Florida. Comparable as a neighboring Florida SAR responder that MCSAR may partner with or be activated alongside under mutual aid.

Others

• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program: FEMA-affiliated volunteer program training civilians in basic disaster response and emergency preparedness. Comparable as an adjacent volunteer ecosystem that supports preparedness training similar to MCSAR's community outreach and wilderness first aid offerings.

Direct peers

• Texas EquuSearch: Volunteer search and recovery organization providing missing-person search capabilities across Texas. Directly comparable as a similarly structured nonprofit volunteer SAR team using K-9 and mounted resources, serving a regional population base.
• Project Lifesaver International: National nonprofit that equips and certifies local agencies (including MCSAR) to deploy radio-frequency tracking bracelets for cognitively impaired individuals. Directly comparable because MCSAR operates as a Project Lifesaver chapter and uses its technology, training, and brand.
• Mountain Rescue Association: Volunteer network of wilderness search and rescue teams across the U.S. Directly comparable as an umbrella for volunteer wilderness SAR teams with mutual-aid activations, though focused on mountainous terrain rather than MCSAR's coastal/flat-terrain environment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCryizFVdHYfFUKGtuZ2V-Kw
• Facebookfacebook.com/ManateeSAR
• Instagraminstagram.com/manateecountysar

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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