South Carolina · Nonprofit
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,188 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($572,255). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,331 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,331 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Heritage Classic Foundationshared funderslocal
- Lions of Virginia Foundation Incportfolio match
- The St Joe Community Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
97% of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $51k → $79k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE’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 OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 71% · 2022 45% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
82% of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $143k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Heritage Classic Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you
- Lions of Virginia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The St Joe Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taylor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Lowcountryshared funderslocalSC · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 organizations near you
- Palmetto Electric Trustshared funderslocalSC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 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 OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE: 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 BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE?
- BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,188 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($572,255). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $782,188 in grants to BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE?
- Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $572,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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