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FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC

FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,109 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($151,300). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$580k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$496k
Net assets
$1.1M
14/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Fighting Back Scholarship Program Inc does

Mission

The fighting back scholarship program is a community of support and inspiration. Our mission is to provide financial assistance for post-rehabilitative exercise to individuals recovering from a life changing injury or illness, and to recognize individuals at our annual achievement night for their courage, desire and perseverance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarship program: to provide financial assistance for post-rehabilitative exercise to individuals recovering from a life changing injury or illness.during the 2025 fiscal year, 109 individual scholarships were provided for post rehabilitative exercise. This is the equivalent of over 3,500 hours of post rehabilitation exercise over a one year period. The results of which are increased mobility, strength, and increased confidence to our scholarship recipients. The demand for scholarship still exceeds our supply of scholarships. We will continue to grow the organization to provide more scholarships as it becomes fiscally possible.

    $263,350 spentof which $244,860 as grants
    68% of program spending
  2. Our annual achievement night to honor those individuals who have displayed courage, desire, and perseverance in fighting back from their life altering medical issue.

    $122,098 spent$63,896 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $385,448.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($263k) Expenses 100 ($274k) Net assets 100 ($417k)2018 Revenue 117 ($307k) Expenses 97 ($265k) Net assets 110 ($459k)2019 Revenue 125 ($328k) Expenses 101 ($276k) Net assets 122 ($511k)2020 Revenue 106 ($279k) Expenses 86 ($235k) Net assets 133 ($555k)2021 Revenue 117 ($308k) Expenses 91 ($249k) Net assets 147 ($615k)2022 Revenue 169 ($443k) Expenses 125 ($342k) Net assets 171 ($715k)2023 Revenue 230 ($604k) Expenses 140 ($383k) Net assets 224 ($937k)2024 Revenue 195 ($511k) Expenses 158 ($432k) Net assets 243 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 221 ($580k) Expenses 175 ($479k) Net assets 268 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (221)Expenses (175)Net assets (268)Peer revenue range

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 $715k to $937k (+31%).

$417k
$459k
$511k
$555k
$615k
$715k
$937k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
$42k
’18
$52k
’19
$44k
’20
$60k
’21
$100k
’22
$221k
’23
$79k
’24
$101k
’25
28
months of
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.

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Listed910999991211
Joined·+2+0+0+0+0+0+3+1
No longer listed·11000002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $60k.

5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC’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

FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC.

30%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 61% · 2019 29% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 47% · 2023 31% — 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

42% of FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
NJ
DE
NC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve28.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 13%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
82%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC?
FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,109 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($151,300). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $496,109 in grants to FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $151,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 25 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