Backpack Assistance Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464364374
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Whitefish, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062499086
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,266
- Expenses
- $88,874
- Assets
- $376,440
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHANCE COOKE (President)
- KELLIE CAHILL (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- CHANCE COOKE (President)
- AMY RIDGEWAY (Secretary)
- KIRSTIN SABIN (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide food to whitefish and olney-bissel k-8 students in the free lunch program. Food is for the weekends and holidays during the school year. Also provide the north valley food bank with bags each week to go out with the food banks donation packages.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide food for weekly distribution, christmas bags and spring break bags for children in k-8 whitefish muldown and central schools and olney-bissel school; also food bags for kids through the north valley food bank.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.1%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.24; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.