Tennessee · Nonprofit
BACKFIELD IN MOTION
BACKFIELD IN MOTION (Tennessee) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,148,392 to it, the largest being CARE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC TWO BRENTWOOD COMMONS ($707,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $778k
What Backfield in Motion does
Mission
The organizations purpose is to provide academic programs to serve low-income boys, through homework assistance and tutoring and to provide athletic and recreational activities. These programs seek to reach "at-risk" children and to give them educational support opportunities to help them achieve in the classroom and in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Academic tutoring programs aimed at reaching "at-risk" inner city boys to help them reach their maximum potential.
$1,653,501 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,653,501.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $743k (−36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 45% · 2020 35% · 2021 40% · 2022 17% · 2023 38% · 2024 55% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BACKFIELD IN MOTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Todd Campbell
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $241k → $809k.
10 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BACKFIELD IN MOTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BACKFIELD IN MOTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BACKFIELD IN MOTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 26% · 2021 33% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of BACKFIELD IN MOTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of BACKFIELD IN MOTION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $406k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BACKFIELD IN MOTION has grown faster than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BACKFIELD IN MOTION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKFIELD IN MOTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION?
- BACKFIELD IN MOTION (Tennessee) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,148,392 to it, the largest being CARE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC TWO BRENTWOOD COMMONS ($707,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKFIELD IN MOTION have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $4,148,392 in grants to BACKFIELD IN MOTION, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKFIELD IN MOTION?
- CARE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC TWO BRENTWOOD COMMONS is the largest funder on record, with $707,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKFIELD IN MOTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are 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 69 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing