New Jersey · Nonprofit
BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC
BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Backward Flag Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support post-9/11 veterans by offering paid internships, apprenticeships, workshops and/or certificate programs in the arts or as creators
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Transitional and vocational programs for veterans in artisan trades
$0 spentof which $14,249 as grants
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2021 to 2022, from $21k to $17k (−21%).
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.
100% of BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Torie Fisher
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Berman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,195 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC?
- BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC?
- FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKWARD FLAG FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 1 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