Washington · Nonprofit
BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE
BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,834 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $145k
What Bremerton Backpack Brigade does
Mission
Bremerton Backpack Brigade was formed in order to provide food support on weekends to students in particular need in bremerton elementry schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Bremerton Backpack Brigade provides weekly food support to families in need during the school year. Each week, we send home about 300 backpacks filled with a mix of staples like rice, dry beans, or pasta along with fresh fruits and vegetables. These backpacks serve approximately 850 children, with each one weighing between 8 and 10 pounds.our fresh produce costs around $1,200 per week. To help stock our supplies, we host two food drives each month, which bring in about 1,600 pounds of various food items. However, we must purchase any additional food using our own funds.
$174,671 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $174,671.
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 2023 to 2024, from $100k to $151k (+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.
99% of BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE’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
BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 47% · 2022 59% · 2023 73% — 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
20% of BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE: 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 BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE?
- BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,834 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $100,834 in grants to BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREMERTON BACKPACK BRIGADE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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