Bremerton Backpack Brigade

Analysis

Bremerton Backpack Brigade is a registered charity in United States, based in Bremerton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bremerton Backpack Brigade reported income of $161k and spending of $173k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $227k to $161k (-29%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bremerton Backpack Brigade sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mission Community Outreach Center of Spokane Washington ($161k), Two Lives Changed ($161k) and Texas Citrus Fiesta Inc ($161k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $100k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $100k.