Texas · Nonprofit
Georgetown Backpack Buddies
Georgetown Backpack Buddies (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,504 to it, the largest being GEORGETOWN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ($269,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $273k
What Georgetown Backpack Buddies does
Mission
Provide weekend food to qualifying Georgetown Independent School District Students. A weekend bag of non-perishable food items is packed by volunteers every week of the school school year and distributed to students who qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program at GISD.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided weekend food for qualifying Georgetown Independent School District students by coordinating over 100 local volunteers every week of the academic year by packing and delivering almost 43,000 bags with non-perishable food items to local schools. The purchase of food consisted of 92% of all organizational expense as of Georgetown ISD FY 2023-24.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $220k to $273k (+24%).
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.
96% of Georgetown Backpack Buddies’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $39k → $58k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Georgetown Backpack Buddies’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
Georgetown Backpack Buddies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Georgetown Backpack Buddies.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 50% · 2022 97% · 2023 78% — 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
100% of Georgetown Backpack Buddies's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k 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
Georgetown Backpack Buddies runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Georgetown Backpack Buddies
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
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 Georgetown Backpack Buddies: 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 Georgetown Backpack Buddies?
- Georgetown Backpack Buddies (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,504 to it, the largest being GEORGETOWN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ($269,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Georgetown Backpack Buddies have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $446,504 in grants to Georgetown Backpack Buddies, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Georgetown Backpack Buddies?
- GEORGETOWN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC is the largest funder on record, with $269,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Georgetown Backpack Buddies find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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