Brookings Back Pack Project

Analysis

Brookings Back Pack Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Brookings, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, 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, Brookings Back Pack Project reported income of $146k and spending of $126k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $85k to $146k (+72%), an average of +72% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brookings Back Pack Project sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Misson Share Inc ($146k), Welcome Home Jersery City a NJ Non-Profit Corporation ($146k) and Rock Eternal Association ($146k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $87k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $87k.