Alabama · Nonprofit
BACKPACK BUDDIES INC
BACKPACK BUDDIES INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being SALMON WORLD MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Backpack Buddies Inc does
Mission
To provide nutritious food and clothing for underprivileged children in the alexander city school system. Prek through 12th grade
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide nutritious food and clothing for underprivileged children in the alexander city school system. Prek through 12th grade
$81,740 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,740.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $29k to $41k (+38%).
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.
100% of BACKPACK BUDDIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of BACKPACK BUDDIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BACKPACK BUDDIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of BACKPACK BUDDIES INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BACKPACK BUDDIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BACKPACK BUDDIES INC
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES INC?
- BACKPACK BUDDIES INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being SALMON WORLD MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKPACK BUDDIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $93,500 in grants to BACKPACK BUDDIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKPACK BUDDIES INC?
- SALMON WORLD MINISTRIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKPACK BUDDIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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