South Dakota · Nonprofit
BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT
BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT (South Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,661 to it, the largest being Larson Foundation ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Brookings Area United Waylocalportfolio match
- Feeding South Dakotalocalportfolio match
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
100% of BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $196.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT’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
BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 96% · 2023 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
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.
- Brookings Area United Waylocalportfolio matchSD · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding South Dakotalocalportfolio matchSD · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Exchange Club of Charlestonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oro y Plata Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest of South Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Second Step Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thankful Thursdayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Buffalove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT
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.
In South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT?
- BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT (South Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,661 to it, the largest being Larson Foundation ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $93,661 in grants to BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT?
- Larson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKINGS BACK PACK PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing