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 Realogy Charitable Foundation ($230,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- CoreGiving Coportfolio match
- Atlantic Pacific Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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
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
54% of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
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.
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 32 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalGA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · funds 90 organizations near you
- CoreGiving Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlantic Pacific Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lineage Foundation for Goodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Newell Brands Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Journey for Good Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knight Family Vision Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gsf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspire Brands Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Mainshared fundersMO · backs 131 organizations that share your funders
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 METRO ATLANTA 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 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA 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 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 Realogy Charitable Foundation ($230,000). 18 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, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC?
- Realogy Charitable Foundation 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.
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 32funders 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