Washington · Nonprofit
The Backpack Academy
The Backpack Academy (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,300 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS ($265,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $73k
What The Backpack Academy does
Mission
To support youth ages 12-18 in math and science and provide career development opportunities and workshops for young adults ages 19-24.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
4 Culture a country grant provided sustained operational support dollars to continue the work of the agency. We used the dollars to help fund admin/operations. A total of 3 programs were facilitated this fiscal year.
$11,315 spent24% of program spendingFree Youth Groceries is a city of Seattle funded grant opportunity for youth ages 12-24 who received free groceries and instructional workshops around healthy eating. Youth participated in a month workshop and then used the information to select healthy food options to eat. There were a total of 23 students who participated in this program.
$12,486 spent26% of program spendingSummers in Skyway is a summer opportunity for youth in grades 1st-5th grade who spent six weeks learning about the science of water. There were a total of 330 youth served from July-August 2025.
$7,709 spent16% of program spendingOther Program Services Build a Better Car program, Puget Sound clean air agency grant.
$16,178 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,688.
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 2021 to 2022, from $68k to $99k (+45%).
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 The Backpack Academy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $59k.
From the IRS filings of The Backpack Academy’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
The Backpack Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
86% 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 The Backpack Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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 The Backpack Academy's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Backpack Academy runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Backpack Academy
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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 The Backpack Academy: 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 The Backpack Academy?
- The Backpack Academy (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,300 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS ($265,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Backpack Academy have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $318,300 in grants to The Backpack Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Backpack Academy?
- COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Backpack Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 3 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