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Kentucky · Nonprofit
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC (Kentucky) is funded by 385 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $21,271,779 in grants to it, the largest being KATE & JUSTIN ROSE FOUNDATION INC CO WATSON SLOANE PLLC ($1,944,985). 197 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,461 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,461 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
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).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$753k from 16 funders in 2025, up from $1.1M and 47 in 2017.
68 of 385 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 385 funders by total. Association, not causation.
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 10% · 2021 26% · 2022 13% · 2023 11% · 2024 11% · 2025 35% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
26% 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.
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 385 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21k on record.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
81% of spending goes to programs.
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 385funders 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. view filing