Kentucky · Nonprofit
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 516 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,663,714 to it, the largest being KATE & JUSTIN ROSE FOUNDATION INC CO WATSON SLOANE PLLC ($1,944,985). 265 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 516
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Blessings in a Backpack Inc does
Mission
Blessings in a backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for school aged children across america who might otherwise go hungry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blessings in a backpack provides a flexible framework with efficient solutions for every community to end weekend hunger for its children. At more than 1,000 locations in 44 states, blessings in partnership with our community partners and volunteers, ensures children leave school on friday with a bag of nutrition to help them enjoy a weekend free of hunger.since 2008, more than one million children have enjoyed over 30 million hunger-free weekends.during the 2024-2025 school year, blessings in a backpack made over 2.7 million hunger-free weekends possible for kids. With more than 13.8 million children facing food insecurity, our work at blessings in a backpack is crucial. More than 16,500 voluneers gave 610,000 hours of their time and talent to help ensure kids in their communities had access to food on the weekends.learn more on how to become involved at blessingsinabackpack.org.
$10,890,602 spentof which $9,057,415 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,890,602.
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 $13M to $15M (+23%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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.
Chief executive
Erin Kerr
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Chrissy Cocrane
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 76 funders to 160 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.9M.
70 of 516 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 516 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
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 18 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 18 funders to its left
71% 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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 18% · 2019 15% · 2020 8% · 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% — 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
31% of BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21k on record.
- MA$20k
- FL$782
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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK 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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC?
- BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 516 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,663,714 to it, the largest being KATE & JUSTIN ROSE FOUNDATION INC CO WATSON SLOANE PLLC ($1,944,985). 265 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC have?
- IRS filings report 516 organizations giving $26,663,714 in grants to BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC, 265 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC?
- KATE & JUSTIN ROSE FOUNDATION INC CO WATSON SLOANE PLLC is the largest funder on record, with $1,944,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 516 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing