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Washington · Nonprofit
BACK PACK FOR KIDS (Washington) is funded by 5 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $86,119 in grants to it, the largest being SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BACK PACK FOR KIDS has grown faster than half of the 1,908 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,908 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
0% of BACK PACK FOR KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $16k → $20k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BACK PACK FOR KIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
BACK PACK FOR KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
BACK PACK FOR KIDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing