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.
Against its field
BACKPACK BUDDIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,813 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocal
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio match
- The Comfort Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Funders to approach
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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 105 organizations near you
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Comfort Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact13 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanangel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest of South Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Exchange Club of Charlestonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americans Helping Americans Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ala-Tom RC&D Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hill Crest Foundation Incshared funderslocalAL · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like BACKPACK BUDDIES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKPACK BUDDIES INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 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. 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing