Georgia · Nonprofit
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,075 to it, the largest being Anywhere Gives Inc ($230,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $968k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta Inc does
Mission
To provide weekend meals to food-insecure children in metro atlanta and to enhance their physical and mental health as well their ability to learn
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided weekend meals to food-insecure children in metro atlanta to enhance their mental and physical health as well as their ability to learn. Bpbma serves over 2,500 children each weekend and plans to increase that number each weekend in the next two yearsmore than 200,000 children in metro atlanta are food-insecure, at risk of hunger due to unpredictable access to meals. During the week, most receive breakfast and lunch at school at little or no cost, a lifeline for food-insecure children. But for some, the school lunch on friday is the last good meal they will get until they return to school on monday. For tens of thousands of at-risk children in metro atlanta, saturday and sunday are days of hunger. Backpack buddies of metro atlanta is working to change this reality for children and families by providing healthy weekend meals through our weekend feeding program. During the 2024/2025 school year, backpack buddies provided over 570,000 nutritious meals to 2,500 kids in 50 title 1 schools in metro atlanta. To learn more, visit www.backpackbuddiesatl.org.
$608,932 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $608,932.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $168k to $734k (+336%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Denise Bjurholm
Executive director
Board chair
Terri Bagen
Board chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $2k → $197k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 METRO ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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 METRO ATLANTA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 METRO ATLANTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — 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
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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 METRO ATLANTA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC?
- BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,075 to it, the largest being Anywhere Gives Inc ($230,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $968,075 in grants to BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC?
- Anywhere Gives Inc is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 32 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