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Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun

To fund, facilitate, and educate existing and potential weekend food programs for students in loudoun county, virginia

$166k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$364kReligion$10k
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $117,652, the rows itemized in this filing. The $166,260 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,608 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$6,720
Median grant
1
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$40,000
DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY$10,000
ST THERESA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$8,300
HUNGER RESPONSE TEAM OF STERLING$7,500
JOHN W TOLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$6,840
WILLIAM O ROBEY HIGH SCHOOL$6,737
ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$6,720
SENECA RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,750
BLUE RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,430
HARPER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,375
FOREST GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,000
YOUNG KINGS MOVEMENT$5,000
BETTERALIFE INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 3%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 3%MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 4%JL SIMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $6k → 4%THE AMPERSAND PANTRY PROJECT: $15k → 4%MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF LEESBURG AND PURCELLVILLE: $8k → 4%JOHN W TOLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $7k → 4%HARPER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5k → 4%YOUNG KINGS MOVEMENT: $5k → 4%ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $12k → 4%MEADOWLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $9k → 4%WILLIAM O ROBEY HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 4%SENECA RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL: $8k → 4%HUNGER RESPONSE TEAM OF STERLING: $8k → 4%WILLIAM O ROBEY HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 4%GUILFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $7k → 4%SENECA RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL: $6k → 4%FOREST GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 4%LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40k → 4%LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $31k → 4%LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9k → 4%LOVETTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $7k → 4%MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $8k → 4%MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $6k → 4%BLUE RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5k → 4%BETTERALIFE INC: $5k → 4%LOWES ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 4%HARMONY MIDDLE SCHOOL: $13k → 4%POTOMAC FALLS HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 4%DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 4%DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 4%DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 4%DOMINION TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 4%ST THERESA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 4%DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 4%ST THERESA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $8k → 4%ST THERESA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $8k → 4%ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7k → 4%ST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7k → 4%FITWIZE 4 KIDS: $5k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$292k · 5 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$292k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+7%

Still filing today

40%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $147k
  • LE
    LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $80k · revenue -27%
  • DS
    DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMPERSAND PANTRY PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • MH
    MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $146,866 · OtherLOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSST THERESA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $16,300 · OtherST THERESA'S CATHOLIC CHURCHTHE AMPERSAND PANTRY PROJECT: $15,000 · OtherTHE AMPERSAND PANTRY PROJECTST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $13,420 · OtherST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $12,000 · OtherST THERESA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF LEESBURG AND PURCELLVILLE: $8,000 · Other+1 more: $5,325 · OtherLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDA…DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionDULLES SOUTH F…Hunger Response Team of Sterling In: $7,500 · Food & NutritionHunger Respons…BETTERALIFE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionBETTERALIFE IN…MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYoung Kings Movement: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$226,911Philanthropy$80,000Food & Nutrition$47,500Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Kings Movement: $5,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBETTERALIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Hunger Response Team of Sterling In ↗
  • Who funds Young Kings Movement ↗
  • Who funds BETTERALIFE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier CountiesVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $89k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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