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GRAD BAG INC

GRAD BAG INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,990 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($191,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$231k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$493k
Net assets
$294k
13/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Grad Bag Inc does

Mission

Support underserved college-bound students and advance sustainability. Grad Bag Inc provides a more equitable transition to college by collecting, refreshing and repackaging lightly used college dorm room essentials for redistribution to incoming college students in need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To collect gently used college dorm room bedding and the like from graduating students, clean and repackage these items and redistribute them to incoming college students from low-income households.

    $255,257 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $255,257.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2022 Revenue 371 ($178k) Expenses 184 ($50k) Net assets 258 ($208k)2023 Revenue 380 ($182k) Expenses 358 ($98k) Net assets 362 ($292k)2024 Revenue 429 ($206k) Expenses 658 ($180k) Net assets 393 ($318k)2025 Revenue 483 ($231k) Expenses 931 ($255k) Net assets 364 ($294k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (483)Expenses (931)Net assets (364)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 2021 to 2022, from $81k to $208k (+158%).

$81k
$208k
$292k
$318k
$294k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of GRAD BAG 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’21
$127k
’22
$84k
’23
$25k
’24
−$24k
’25
1.2
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.

202320242025
Listed888
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $15k → $117k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 GRAD BAG 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

GRAD BAG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

60% 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 GRAD BAG INC.

39%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 61% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% — 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

75% of GRAD BAG INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 87% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

60% of GRAD BAG INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $198k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
MA
DE

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $295k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

GRAD BAG INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)48% · top quartile

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

Government funding GRAD BAG INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.

State$2k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like GRAD BAG INC

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRAD BAG INC?
GRAD BAG INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,990 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($191,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GRAD BAG INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $492,990 in grants to GRAD BAG INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRAD BAG INC?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $191,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRAD BAG INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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