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The Red Backpack Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Red Backpack Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$551k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

International$5.8MPhilanthropy$1.4MEducation$1.2MPublic Benefit$400kCommunity Improvement$350kScience & Tech$270kYouth Development$155kEmployment$149kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$354,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$550,500
3DE NATIONAL LLC$354,000
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC$270,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER AND POTENTIAL: $29k → 8%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER AND POTENTIAL: $27k → 8%G-CAPP: $50k → 13%G-CAPP: $50k → 13%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 5 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$7.4M
$988k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalAnimalsCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • 3N
    3DE NATIONAL LLC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +70%
  • VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +66%
  • GC
    Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc
    4× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • VV
    VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PAR
    one grant, 2019 · $350k
  • TS
    TRUE STORY BRANDS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $116k
  • GI
    GOODR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
4
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
5
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
6
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
10
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Global Village Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 24 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,526,200 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 · International+1 more: $33,333 · International3DE NATIONAL LLC: $1,154,000 · Other3DE NATIONAL LLCVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PAR: $350,000 · OtherVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PA…TRUE STORY BRANDS LLC: $116,000 · OtherTRUE STORY BRANDS LLCGOODR INC: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $100,000 · Other+9 more: $222,449 · Other+9 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,310,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY F…ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $400,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $270,000 · Arts & CultureGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $155,000 · Human ServicesNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $66,666 · Civil Rights
International$5,759,533Other$2,042,449Philanthropy$1,395,500Environment$400,000Arts & Culture$270,000Human Services$155,000Civil Rights$66,666

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,526,200 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,310,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budget3DE NATIONAL LLC: $1,154,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $270,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $155,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $66,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREWILD: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $33,333 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLKHLTH INC: $33,333 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Red Backpack Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Red Backpack Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    How do I get to The Red Backpack Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Red Backpack Foundation Inc 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 24 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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