Nonprofit screen
Screen a listBackpack Beginnings
Can you give?
Listed with the IRS. Every screen came back clear.
A 501(c)(3) on Publication 78 and the IRS master file.
- IRS nonprofit listing
- No issue
- Revocation
- None
- IRS files
- Agree
- Sanctions
- No match
- IRS bulletin
- No notice
- California
- No record
- Charity type
- 509(a)(1)
$5.2Mrevenue
FY2025 · +106% in 3 yrs11staff
8 of 8years filed
’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Revenue and spendingRevenueSpendingDeficit
Against similar nonprofits FY2025
Operating margin6.5%
Months of reserve1.4mo
Revenue growth (annualized)+29.9%
Middle half of peersMedianBackpack Beginnings
Where the money goes FY2025 · $4.8M spent
Programs$4.7M98%Management and general$115k2%Fundraising$5k0%990 FY2025 · Part IX line 25
Nothing to check in the filings
In its favor1
Growing faster than peers
Revenue up 30% a year since FY2017, in the top quarter of similar nonprofits.
990 Part I · peer cohort86funders
$543ka year, last 3 years
15%from its largest funder
Funder’17’18’19’20’21’22’23The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation IStopped after FY2022$50k$200k–Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family FoundationOn and off$100k$100kThe Foundation for a Healthy High PointStopped after FY2021$25k$100k–The Troon FoundationOn and off$45k$50kWeaver Foundation IncStopped after FY2022$25k$4k$50k–The Cannon Foundation IncOn and off$60kDonor-advised giftsDonors not disclosed$18k$17k$8k$64k$99k$123k$130k48 other fundersUp to $50k a year each$35k$8k$8k$38k$118k$174k$226k
FundedThrough a donor-advised fundStopped