Indiana · Nonprofit
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,624 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $255k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Backpack Buddies of Indiana Inc does
Mission
Community food distribution
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This organization addresses food insecurity among school-aged children. During the school year, the program assembles and distributes food packages in five public schools across pike county to ensure students have meals for weekends and holidays. The program currently serves approximately 575 students and relies on 71 volunteers, along with student helpers, to carry out these efforts.
$93,509 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,509.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $85k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 INDIANA 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 OF INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 INDIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
98% of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $255k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC?
- BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,624 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $254,624 in grants to BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKPACK BUDDIES OF INDIANA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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