Minnesota · Nonprofit
PABS PACKS
PABS PACKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,975 to it, the largest being American Legion Child Welfare Foundation ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Pabs Packs does
Mission
We are a non-profit founded by teenagers, for teenagers, to provide comfort and encouragement to chronically ill teens by donating custom backpacks filled with select items to enhance their hospital stays.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
In 2018, pab's packs distributed 2,520 backpacks to chronically ill teenagers through their 30 hospital and summer camp partners across the u.s., haiti and canada. Since their incorporation, pab's packs has provided a total of 5,330 backpacks, doubling their reach in 2018. With the help of over 400 volunteers to help pack, ship and deliver backpacks, pab's packs also launched a teen ambassador board, a unique leadership and service-learning opportunity for teens in the twin cities. In addition, the pab's packs founders received a prestigious jefferson award for their service and the organization was showcased as a minnesota wild charity of the month in november. Pab's hosted one fundraising event this summer, sold custom pab's merchandise at schools and events, and participated in givemn's give to the max day where they raised meaningful funds. Pab's packs maintained their corporate relationship with morrie's automotive group as well as established relationships with build a bear foundation, american legion child welfare fund and many local private family foundations.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $258k to $177k (−31%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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 → 2019: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $24k → $2k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 PABS PACKS’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
PABS PACKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 PABS PACKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 59% · 2019 65% — broadly stable.
“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
PABS PACKS draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like PABS PACKS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PABS PACKS: 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 PABS PACKS?
- PABS PACKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,975 to it, the largest being American Legion Child Welfare Foundation ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PABS PACKS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $42,975 in grants to PABS PACKS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PABS PACKS?
- American Legion Child Welfare Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PABS PACKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 13 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