Arizona · Nonprofit
Bag It
Bag It (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,460 to it, the largest being DOROTHY HARMSEN AND BILL HARMSEN SR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($65,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $741k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $166k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Bag It does
Mission
Bag It educates, supports and empowers those impacted by cancer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since 2003, Bag It has provided education and information to guide those with cancer and their families to help them cope with their cancer diagnosis and treatment. Bag It content extends from newly diagnosed to through end of life to support the number of people who are living longer after cancer treatment. The bag continues to be offered in both english and spanish, and in collaboration with other organizations there are some cancer-specific bags available. We are proud to announce we have provided the Bag It bag to over 93,322 cancer patients and their families. Bag It bags are distributed to patients through oncology and radiology offices, clinics, hospitals, tribal health centers, nonprofit organizations, and other medical facilities in arizona and slowly expanding across the united states. Individuals across the u.s. Also request and order bags directly from Bag It for themselves or to send as a gift. On feedback surveys patients continue to report Bag It was helpful in assisting them to cope with their cancer, worry less, be more organized, and they were better able to communicate with their healthcare team. We continue to partner with a local az non-profit, the beacon…
$270,362 spent$39,835 earned by the program67% of program spendingBag It's 5-day leadership conference for cancer advocates, escape to thrive (encouraging and sustaining cancer advocacy programs and efforts) celebrated it's 11th conference in january, 2023. Over 35 attendees were in attendance representing a range of cancer types, backgrounds, ages and advocacy experience. This conference impacts hundreds of cancer patients and survivors as attendees return home with many new skills and improved attitudes to continue their advocacy work. The overall goals are to build capacity, develop collaborations and explore self-care. Since its launch in 2011, over 150 organizations have been represented at escape to thrive.
$135,980 spent$26,047 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $406,342.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $284k to $431k (+52%).
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: 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Bag It’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $14k → $32k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Bag It’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
Bag It leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 Bag It.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 67% · 2019 98% · 2020 66% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 39% — 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
44% of Bag It's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of Bag It's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Bag It runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Bag It receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $176 on record.
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$176
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Bag It
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bag It: 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 Bag It?
- Bag It (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,460 to it, the largest being DOROTHY HARMSEN AND BILL HARMSEN SR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($65,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bag It have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $166,460 in grants to Bag It, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bag It?
- DOROTHY HARMSEN AND BILL HARMSEN SR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bag It find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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