South Carolina · Nonprofit
BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND
BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,893 to it, the largest being ANGELAKIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $433k
What Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island does
Mission
To provide weekend food to public school children in need. The mission of Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island (BPBSI) is to provide a bag of nutritious food to children for weekends and school holidays. The children receiving the food are identified as being in need by school and county officials as being food insecure on weekends and school holidays. BPBSI is an all-volunteer organization that has no employees nor pays compensation or benefits. BPBSI raises funds and then the all-volunteer network purchase and pack individual bags which are delivered to the school for distribution to the individual child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Purchase food for children in need
$58,080 spentof which $58,080 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,080.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $309k to $439k (+42%).
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.
95% of BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $17k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SEABROOK ISLAND’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 SEABROOK ISLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 48% · 2022 46% · 2023 57% — 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
60% of BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% 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
BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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 SEABROOK ISLAND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND: 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 SEABROOK ISLAND?
- BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,893 to it, the largest being ANGELAKIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $97,893 in grants to BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND?
- ANGELAKIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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