South Carolina · Nonprofit
Books in Every Bag
Books in Every Bag (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,000 to it, the largest being THE J H WALKER LEGACY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Books in Every Bag does
Mission
Educational Literacy Improvement in Pre-schoolers to prepare them for kindergarten.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide books monthly with instructional reading tips and activity sheets every month to pre-schoolers at no cost to the family and child. This enhances the reading ability grows imagination and confidence. and supports mental awareness and health in the children. 4,275 children enrolled at years end.
$115,920 spentof which $45,000 as grants96% of program spendingBooks for Babies program in collaboration with the Charleston Library Societies Book Drop program provided books and instructional materials to newborn babies at time of birth in the three hospital birthing centers and pediatric clinics. This provides a first enrollment opportunity but also emphasizes the need to read early and often to children.
$5,060 spentof which $1,950 as grants4% of program spendingNa
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1k to $6k (+364%).
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.
98% of Books in Every Bag’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Barnie Howell
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 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 Books in Every Bag’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
Books in Every Bag leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
Books in Every Bag draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states 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
Books in Every Bag has grown faster 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 Books in Every Bag
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.
Public support
69%
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 Books in Every Bag: 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 Books in Every Bag?
- Books in Every Bag (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,000 to it, the largest being THE J H WALKER LEGACY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Books in Every Bag have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,000 in grants to Books in Every Bag.
- Who is the largest funder of Books in Every Bag?
- THE J H WALKER LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Books in Every Bag 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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